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Observation of Balanus balanoides on the shore at Whitstable shows that at all tidal levels a percentage of the animals maintain a connexion between the mantle cavity and the air by means of a minute aperture or pneumostome. A higher percentage of animals at lower shore levels have a pneumostome than those nearer the top of the shore.
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Grainger et al. (1965) studied this question.
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