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THE occurrence of the pelagic and planktonic floating barnacle, Lepas fascicularis, on the shore at New Train Bay, Trevone, near Padstow, Cornwall, in the summer of 1933, is an event sufficiently rare to be worthy of record along with other unusual marine events of that outstanding year.
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ORTON, J., RAWLINSON, R. The Floating Barnacle on the North Cornish Coast in the Summer of 1933. Nature 133, 418 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133418a0
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