[NatureNS] local barnacle species?

Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:28:40 -0300
From: Eric Mills <E.Mills@Dal.Ca>
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Balanus balanoides is indeed the common (and virtually exclusive) intertidal
barnacle in our waters. There are other species in deeper water.
Eric

Quoting Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca>:

>    Hi,
>    any barnacle experts out there? My daughter is doing a Grade 11 
> biology project on the effect of tides on a barnacle population in 
> Halifax Harbour.  (On Saturday afternoon, we have spent a cold and 
> windy hour in a canoe at the mouth of Dartmouth's "Sawmill River," 
> measuring and counting barnacles on a wooden seawall.)
>    All the individuals we saw looked morphologically identical, even 
> though there were several size classes present, and we assume that 
> they all belonged to the same species, Northern Rock Barnacle 
> (Balanus balanoides). Is this the common intertidal zone barnacle 
> species in Nova Scotia? Could someone confirm our species ID? Many 
> thanks!
>    Dusan Soudek
>
>



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