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RECENTLY, Powell1 reported the occurrence of two specimens of the immigrant barnacle Elminius modestus at Keppel Point, Isle of Cumbrae, where the species was reported some four years previously by Connell2. This is only the second record of the species north of Loch Ryan, though it has been present in the Loch and farther south for some time3. Its presence in very small numbers at scattered points on the south-west coast of Scotland is to be expected, since it has now colonized shores on all sides of the Irish Sea and has been found beyond the North Channel in Loch Foyle4.
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CRISP, D. Northern Limits of Elminius modestus in Britain. Nature 188, 681 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188681a0
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