[NatureNS] local barnacle species?

Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:13:07 -0300
From: ANNABELLE THIEBAUX <HAMST@NS.SYMPATICO.CA>
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Dusan Soudek wrote:
>    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
>
I don't know Dusan, when I was a kid in Northern NB we called them 
barlico-co & used to sing to them to make them show horns!

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