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Your remarks shall fructify to some extent, and I will try to be more faithful to rigid virtue and priority; but as for calling Balanus "Lepas" (which I did not think of) I cannot do it, my pen won't write it -- it is impossible.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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Balanus improvisus, bay barnacle by Al Denelsbeck — They are now showing up far removed from their originating Atlantic home.
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Balanus improvisus, bay barnacle by Al Denelsbeck — They are now showing up far removed from their originating Atlantic home.
Photography Contest: Finalists, Invasive - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Balanus improvisus, bay barnacle by Al Denelsbeck — They are now showing up far removed from their originating Atlantic home.
Photography Contest: Finalists, Invasive - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Balanus improvisus, bay barnacle by Al Denelsbeck — They are now showing up far removed from their originating Atlantic home.
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Balanus improvisus, bay barnacle by Al Denelsbeck — They are now showing up far removed from their originating Atlantic home.
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Balanus improvisus, bay barnacle by Al Denelsbeck — They are now showing up far removed from their originating Atlantic home.
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These ecosystems sustain billions of worms, protozoa, barnacles (Balanus spp.), oysters (Crassostrea spp.), sponges, and other invertebrates, some of which live attached to the roots.
Mangrove swamp 2008
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Shoreline fauna species include the acorn barnacle Balanus improvisus, the common mussel Mytilus edulis, the coralline Electra crustukenta and thefreshwater snail Theodoxus fluviatilis.
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Shore crab Carcinus mediterraneus and Balanus amphitrite occur near the Tindja canal.
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