Download or read book An Introduction to the Biology of British Littoral Barnacles written by P. S. Rainbow and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides an introduction to the biology of barnacles that might be encountered on a low spring tide on a British rocky shore. The first part covers features of barnacle biology, system by system. The second part is an account of the biology of the most important British sessile barnacles. The zonation of British barnacles is discussed, identifying the physical and biological factors limiting barnacle distributions and summarising the ecological relationships of the barnacles. Finally the biology of the specialish parasitic barnacles, the Rhizocephalans Sacculina and Peltogaster, is briefly outlined.