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The Growth Rate of Balanus hameri (Ascanius)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Hilary B. Moore
Affiliation:
Marine Biological Laboratory, Plymouth.

Extract

1. Sixty specimens of B. haineri, of five successive year groups, were obtained in December, 1933, and a further 33 preserved specimens taken in the winter of 1925 were examined.

2. The mean ages contained for successive year groups from the size distribution and from individuals settled on those of the preceding year, yielded results in good agreement with one another.

3. First-year individuals do not spawn. All older individuals had ripe genital products in the 1933 material, and early embryos in the 1925 material.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1935

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References

Moore, H. B. 1934. The Biology of Balanus balanoides. I. Growth Rate and its Relation to Size, Season and Tidal Level. Journ. Mar. Biol. Assoc., N.S., Vol. XIX, No. 2, p. 851.Google Scholar