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Larval body size–mass relationships of barnacles common to the English Channel coast of the UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2010

E. Muxagata  and
J.A. Williams
E. Muxagata*
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande—FURG, Laboratório de Zooplâncton, Instituto de Oceanografia, Avenida Itália, km8, Campus Carreiros, Caixa Postal 474–96201-900, Rio Grande, RS—Brazil
J.A. Williams
Affiliation:
School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, European Way, SO14 3ZH, Southampton, United Kingdom
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: E. Muxagata, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande—FURG, Laboratório de Zooplâncton, Instituto de Oceanografia, Avenida Itália, km8, Campus Carreiros, Caixa Postal 474–96201-900, Rio Grande, RS—Brazil email: e.muxagata@gmail.com
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Abstract

The study presents dry mass and body measurements of the larval stages of five common barnacle species occurring in mesozooplankton catches of Southampton Water and the central Solent area of the south coast of the UK. Quantitative samples were collected with conventional 120-μm mesh plankton nets. Species-specific regression equations relating carapace width and total length with dry mass were obtained for stage II to stage VI nauplii and cyprids of Austrominius modestus, Amphibalanus improvisus, Balanus crenatus, Semibalanus balanoides and Verruca stroemia. Width–dry mass and length–dry mass regressions obtained in the present study accounted for more than 98% of the variability for naupliar stages, and length–dry mass for 80% of the variability for cyprids. The dry mass of barnacle larvae predicted from carapace width equations determined here differed by only –6% from the measured dry masses of an independent data set, suggesting these first-reported equations of barnacle larvae are useful additions to zooplankton production studies.

Keywords

body size–mass relationshipsbarnacle larvaecirripediameroplanktonAustrominius modestusAmphibalanus improvisusBalanus crenatusSemibalanus balanoidesVerruca stroemia
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 91 , Issue 1 , February 2011 , pp. 181 - 189
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2010

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