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Index of Subjects 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 > > ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Dr Eric L Mills Professor Emeritus of History of Science Dept of Oceanography, Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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