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Megabalanus coccopoma, Invasive Barnacle
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Megabalanus
coccopoma surrounded by the native ivory barnacle, Balanus
eburneus, and Brachidontes exustus mussels on groin at
Edisto Island, SC, 01/20/07
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Megabalanus
coccopoma with
small barnacles on it, found on Waties Island, SC, 02/03/07
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Comparison
of different size barnacles and species, Waties Island, SC, 02/03/07
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Another Megabalanus
coccopoma, Edisto Beach, SC, 03/07/07
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Balanus
eburneus, white on the left, and Megabalanus coccopoma,Wrightsville
Beach, NC, 06/29/06
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Megabalanus
coccopoma,Wrightsville Beach, NC, 06/29/06
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These
barnacles were found in NC three or four months before the barnacle
was discovered in the Charleston, SC, area.
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