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Barnacles
A great deal is now known about the functional organization, physiology, reproduction, and development of barnacles. For the first time, this book brings to bear all aspects of this knowledge on our interpretation of the dynamics of barnacle evolution relating them to the fossil history and biogeography of the group.
Barnacles
This guide covers barnacles of mainly south-eastern Australia and begins withinformation about their biology, habitats and diversity. A description of each animal is accompanied by a colour photograph. A key is also provided for easier identification of common barnacles, with some of the more rare and less visible animals related to barnacles.The endmatter includes both a scientific and common name index, further references and a glossary.
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Barnacle Biology
This text gives an overview of almost all aspects of barnacle biology covering advances made since Charles Darwin to the present day.
An Introduction to the Biology of British Littoral Barnacles
This paper provides an introduction to the biology of barnacles that might be encountered on a low spring tide on a British rocky shore. The first part covers features of barnacle biology, system by system. The second part is an account of the biology of the most important British sessile barnacles. The zonation of British barnacles is discussed, identifying the physical and biological factors limiting barnacle distributions and summarising the ecological relationships of the barnacles. Finally the biology of the specialish parasitic barnacles, the Rhizocephalans Sacculina and Peltogaster, is briefly outlined.
A Taxonomy of Barnacles
The Barnacle sisters--Bell, Bridget, Benita, Beryl, Belinda and Beth--have been raised in New York bytheir eccentric, self-made father in a fabulous, gigantic Fifth Avenue apartment that, encrusted with Barry Barnacle's scientific collections, feels like a little piece of the Museum of Natural History transplanted to the other side of Central Park. Now that most of the sisters have come of age, Barry Barnacle proposes a contest, a test of wits and wills that should at long last settle what is to Barry the most essential of all questions: nature, or nurture? Whichever of his daughters can most spectacularly carry on his name will inherit his fortune; the others are out cold. It's a proposition to set a Jane Austen heroine on her ear, but in Galt Niederhoffer's A Taxonomy of Barnacles, the Barnacle girls are up to the challenge. Throw the girls' mother Bella and their childhood crushes--the Finch twins next door--into the mix and the stage is set for a completely inventive and utterly fresh social comedy that is as beautifully written as it is unique.
The Sessile Barnacles (Cirripedia) Contained in the Collections of the U. S. National Museum
This work is a continuation of the author's report on the Cirripedia contained in the United States National Museum, of which the portion relating to pedunculate forms was published in 1907. It was at first intended to record the species of sessile Cirripedia in the Museum, with their localities, and to describe and figure new forms. As the collection was worked over, its wealth in American barnacles became apparent and contains nealy every known species of the Western Hemisphere, many of which show variations special to American waters, altering the scope of this work which may now be described as a monograph of American sessile barnacles.
Attachment Mechanism of Barnacles
The initial attachment of the barnacle is shown to be a purely mechanical hold by the suction cups of the cyprid antennae. An adhesive cement may be secreted for reinforcement but is not essential for permanent attachment. The Balanidae have permanent, periodically functioning glands which are located in the living mantle tissue. These glands develop directly from the cyprid cement glands. The cement glands and the rest of the cementing apparatus of the Balanidae are basically identical with those of the Lepadidae. The cementing apparatus is flushed after each cement secretion. In this way, old ducts are kept open for emergency repair or reattachment. This emergency secretion is expected to be chemically identical to the cyprid and the normally secreted adult cement.
