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Plastic flotsam as an agent for dispersal of Perforatus perforatus (Cirripedia: Balanidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

E.I.S. Rees  and
A.J. Southward
E.I.S. Rees*
Affiliation:
School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, Menai Bridge, Wales, LL61 5AB, UK
A.J. Southward
Affiliation:
Marine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB, UK
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: E.I.S. Rees, School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, Menai Bridge, Wales, LL61 5AB, UK email: oss058@bangor.ac.uk
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Abstract

During the winter of 2003–2004 a large number of the warmer water barnacle Perforatus (Balanus) perforatus were found in North Wales well beyond the normal rocky shore range of the species. They were found attached to plastic fish boxes and other plastic flotsam stranded on beaches after storms. Evidence from markings as well as oceanographic and meteorological conditions suggests that the flotsam with the barnacles may have originated in north-western Spain. Plastic flotsam that does not readily degrade could provide a means for range extension in sessile benthic organisms such as some barnacles.

Keywords

Perforatus perforatusCirripediaPlastic flotsamrange extension
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Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 2 , January 2009 , e25
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2009

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