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It owes its pale color to millions of millions of a small balanus (_B. balanoides_), produced in such amazing abundance in the littoral zone as to cover with a rough crust every minute portion of rock and every sedentary shell.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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His study organism, the Atlantic acorn barnacle, Semibalanus balanoides, is known to have a penis with a exoskeleton with
Boing Boing Maggie Koerth-Baker 2010
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Fucus spp., sessile (i.e., non-mobile) barnacles (Balanus balanoides
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