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Biometrical Changes During Growth Of Isolated Individuals Of Balanus Improvisus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

E. R. Furman  and
D. J. Crisp
E. R. Furman
Affiliation:
Division of Ecology, Department of Zoology, University of Helsinki, P. Rautatiek, 13 00100, Helsinki, Finland.
D. J. Crisp
Affiliation:
School of Animal Biology, UCNW, Menai Bridge, LL59 5EY
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Previous work on barnacle biometry has mainly been concerned with the opercular valves, whose shape is often an important taxonomic character (Barnes & Healy, 1969; Henry & McLaughlin, 1975). The well-known change in shape whereby columnar individuals are produced as a result of crowding has also been described by many workers (e.g. Trusheim, 1932; Barnes & Powell, 1950; Subklew, 1969; Crisp & Bourget, 1985). The influence of environmental variables on the shape of the barnacle shell as a whole has been little studied.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 69 , Issue 3 , August 1989 , pp. 511 - 521
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1989

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