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The anti-settling effect against the barnacle has been shown in vitro: [9] When the barnacle cyprid larva encounters a surface containing medetomidine the molecule interacts with the octopamine receptor in the larva. This causes the settling larva to increase its kicking to more than 100 kicks per minute, which makes becoming sessile nearly ...
The bay barnacle, Balanus improvisus, described by Charles Darwin, on a shell of the sand gaper clam Mya arenaria. This is a list of taxa described by Charles Darwin. [1] Many of them are barnacles from his study of that group. [2] [3] [4] Balanus improvisus, bay barnacle; Colorhamphus parvirostris, Patagonian tyrant; Acasta cyathus, sponge ...
Barnacle adults are sessile; most are suspension feeders with hard calcareous shells, but the Rhizocephala are specialized parasites of other crustaceans, with reduced bodies. Barnacles have existed since at least the mid-Carboniferous, some 325 million years ago. In folklore, barnacle geese were once held to emerge fully formed from goose ...
The residents of Springfield watch a silent film at an outdoor movie night. When the film is destroyed and the people demand another film, Patty and Selma show an old home movie from Marge's youth of a Bouvier trip to the town of Barnacle Bay, located on an island in New England.
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Lepas anatifera, commonly known as the pelagic gooseneck barnacle or smooth gooseneck barnacle, is a species of barnacle in the family Lepadidae. These barnacles are found, often in large numbers, attached by their flexible stalks to floating timber, the hulls of ships, piers, pilings, seaweed , and various sorts of flotsam .
Balanus nubilus, commonly called the giant acorn barnacle, is the world's largest barnacle, reaching a diameter of 15 cm (6 in) and a height of up to 30 cm (12 in), [3] and containing the largest known muscle fibres. [4] [5] Balanus nubilus is a northeast Pacific species that ranges from southern Alaska to Baja California. [6]
Amphibalanus amphitrite (striped barnacle) Amphibalanus improvisus (bay barnacle) Anoplolepis gracilipes (yellow crazy ant) Aromia bungii (red-necked longhorn) Bemisia tabaci (silverleaf whitefly) Blattella germanica (German cockroach) Bombus terrestris (buff-tailed bumblebee) Bugula neritina (brown bryozoan)