Barnacle Biology

Alan J. Southward, Frederick R. Schram

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781351464741
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Sciences biologiques
• Subtopic: Biologie marine

This text gives an overview of almost all aspects of barnacle biology covering advances made since Charles Darwin to the present day.

 

 

BARNACLE BIOLOGY

Edited by
ALAN J. SOUTHWARD
The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth

 

 

 

 

 

Dedicated in honour of Prof. D.J. Crisp, F.R.S.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ISSN 0168-6356
ISBN 90 6191 628 3
© 1987 A.A.Balkema, P.O. Box 1675, 3000 BR Rotterdam, Netherlands
Printed in the Netherlands

 

 

Evolutionary and functional aspects of Charles Darwin’s studies of barnacles, as drawn by George Sowerby to Darwin’s detailed instructions. (A) From Darwin’s volume on Lepadidae (1851: 28). ‘…homologies of the external parts: the upper figure is a stomatopod crustacean, Leucifer…: the lower figure is a mature Lepas, with the antennae and eyes…supposed to have gone on growing. All that we externally see of a cirripede…is the anterior three segments of the head of a crustacean, with its anterior end permanently cemented to a surface of attachment.’ See Newman (this volume) for reconsideration of this evolutionary aspect. (B) Structure of sessile barnacle as seen by Darwin (in volume on Balanidae, Plate 25, Fig. 1): Megabalanus [Balanus]tintinnabulum in partial longitudinal section, showing points of interest in connection with contributions by Anderson & Southward, Burnett, Gwilliam, Hoyle, and Bourget. Shell plates and valves: K — carina; L — lateral; R — rostrum; S — scutum; T — tergum. Internal anatomy: a — adductor muscle; c — prosoma; c’ — thorax; f — mantle cavity; i,h -depressor muscles (lateral depressors not shown); g-g — oviduct (correctly shown in part but its relationship to true ovary misinterpreted by Darwin); z — vestiges of antennae of cyprid shown enlarged to 12 times scale of rest.

Table of contents

Foreword: Dennis John Crisp, F.R.S.

Introduction

1 Evolution and genetics

Evolution of cirripedes and their major groups
W.A. Newman

Barnacle palaeontology
B.A. Foster & J.S. Buckeridge

The burrowing barnacles (Acrothoracica)
J. T. Tomlinson

Biochemical genetics of barnacles and their taxonomy
P.R.Dando

Sexuality and hermaphroditism in barnacles: A natural selection approach
E.L.Charnov

Cytogenetics of cirripedes: A retrospective review
A.P.Austin

2 Physiology and function

Barnacle ecology and adaptation
B.A.Foster

Cirral activity of barnacles
D.T. Anderson & A.J. Southward

The cirripede circulatory system and its evolution
Bryan R. Burnett

Neurobiology of barnacles
G. F. Gwilliam

The giant muscle cells of barnacles
G.Hoyle

Lipid biochemistry of barnacles
D.L.Holland

Endocrinology of cirripedes
A.S.Clare

Barnacle shells: Composition, structure and growth
E.Bourget

Excretion in barnacles
K.N.White

3 Larval biology and settlement

Structure and function in balanomorph larvae
G. Walker, A.B. Yule & J.A.Nott

Larvae of lepadomorph barnacles
J.Moyse

Settlement patterns an...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Title Page 1
• Copyright Page
• Front matter
• Table of Contents
• Foreword: Dennis John Crisp, F.R.S.
• Introduction
• 1 Evolution and genetics
• 2 Physiology and function
• 3 Larval biology and settlement
• 4 Pollution and fouling
• Taxonomic index
• Subject index