balanus

The Captain had advised Nellie to search amongst the old wooden piles of the pier, as a likely situation to find these animals, and others he named quite as curious, such as the ` beroe 'and the ` balanus,' which while looking as if inanimate yet are ` all alive, 'and, if not

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

Linnaeus gives no type to his genus Lepas, though L. balanus comes first.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845

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

In yet another zone we find the common limpet and the vesicular kelp-weed; and the small gray balanus and serrated kelp-weed form the productions of the top.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

Balanus balanus that contributes a large proportion of the biomass of sessile species

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