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Barnacle Bonanza
...polymerus. The striped goose barnacle (Conchoderma virgatum...species of both gooseneck and acorn barnacles live as peaceful commensals...and other sea creatures. Barnacle love Both acorn and gooseneck barnacles are hermaphrodites--that... |
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barnacle
...body wall. Some shelled barnacles are commensal, attaching...echinoderms. The gooseneck barnacle Conchoderma may be found growing on the acorn barnacle Coronula, which grows...whales.Besides the shelled barnacles there are naked barnacles... |
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Books: A Little Husband in Each Pocket ; Darwin and the Barnacle by Rebecca...
...through these years was a barnacle nicknamed "Mr Arthrobalanus...beach. It looked like an acorn barnacle - but a feature of the acorn barnacle was that it developed its...four detailed volumes on barnacles, including Mr Arthrobalanus... |
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Voyage of the Barnacle
...Beagle, no one knew much about barnacles-and few cared. But young...Anatomically it resembled an acorn barnacle. But that creature was defined...science: a rare burrowing barnacle with no shell-house of its...1854, devoted entirely to barnacles? By 1842 Darwin had already... |
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Barnacles in Butter Sauce
...only place where people eat barnacles. A few months later, on...called geoducks, and goose barnacles at the restaurant," Philip told me. At the mention of barnacles, I promptly launched into...Pacific Northwest called a giant acorn barnacle, which we also serve at the... |
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Food Special: Goose Barnacles, a Bull's Tail, and a Bag of Apples, Please ;...
...perpetually packed aisles bulge with legs of fragrant jabugo ham from acorn-fed Iberian pigs; strings of chorizo, morcilla and butifarra...dramatic earrings dispense curious-looking percebes (goose barnacles), razor clams, tiny baby eels, sardines and gleaming sea... |
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Give Me Your Shelled, Your Clawed
...familiar scene. While mussels and acorn barnacles are busily filtering small food...crawl slowly about in search of barnacles and mussels. Deeper in the pool...whelk. This snail, which preys on barnacles and mussels, abounds on rocky... |
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Fish Can't Resist the Jane Yarn; Sunk Last August off the Georgia Coast, the...
...hulled vessel. So far, the Jane Yarn is covered in acorn barnacles, so many that they obscure the ship's name. But...animals on the ship, possibly by scraping off patches of barnacles and monitoring what grows back. "That's what interested... |
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Japanese Boat Removed from Oregon Beach
...specimens of non- native species, such as Japanese acorn barnacles and blue mussels, said Rumrill, who leads the state...of biomass covering the boat consisted of gooseneck barnacles, which are native to Oregon as well as Asia, he said... |
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Dock Fighting Removal Effort
...bottom of the severed piece of the dock and found non- native species, including pink Japanese acorn barnacles, parks officials said. But the barnacles were dead, so they don't pose a threat to the environment or require special containment... |
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