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The Feeding Apparatus of the Barnacle Nauplius Larva: A Scanning Electron Microscope Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

P. S. Rainbow  and
G. Walker
P. S. Rainbow*
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories Menai Bridge, Anglesey, U.K.
G. Walker
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories Menai Bridge, Anglesey, U.K.
*
*Present address: Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, Queen Mary College, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS.
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INTRODUCTION

The nauplius stages of many barnacle species have been described at the light microscope level (Bassindale, 1936; Knight-Jones & Waugh, 1949; Costlow & Bookhout, 1957; Karande, 1974), including those of the British barnacles Balanus balanoides (L.) andBalanus hameri (Ascanius) (Crisp, 1962a, b). Although these studies have included full descriptions of limb structure, it is not possible with the light microscope to resolve the topographical relationship of the limbs and other structures associated with feeding. Attempts to describe the feeding process of barnacle nauplii (Lochhead, 1936; Norris & Crisp, 1953; Gauld, 1959; Moyse & Knight-Jones, 1967) have necessarily been limited for this reason.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , May 1976 , pp. 321 - 326
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1976

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