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Pacific oyster from Brofjorden on a chopping board in Tuntorp
2021-03-27
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
A Pacific oyster (Magallana gigas) about, 12 cm (4.7 in) long, with two smaller oysters and a barnacle (Chthamalus) attached to it. Both the smaller oysters are open, the larger at the top still holds the oyster. The smallest oyster sits between the one and the barnacle, it is empty. In the middle of the top of the shell are dark dots with threads. Those are the holdfasts of an algae (wrack) that was attached to the oyster. The oyster was picked in Brofjorden, close to the shore at Sandvik, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden, about two hours before it was photographed.
