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Aerial respiration in Balanus balanoides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Felicity Grainger
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Queen Mary College, University of London
G. E. Newell
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Queen Mary College, University of London

Extract

Observation of Balanus balanoides on the shore at Whitstable shows that at all tidal levels a percentage of the animals maintain a connexion between the mantle cavity and the air by means of a minute aperture or pneumostome. A higher percentage of animals at lower shore levels have a pneumostome than those nearer the top of the shore.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1965

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