The whale barnacle Cryptolepas rhachianecti (Cirripedia: Coronulidae), a phoront of the grey whale Eschrichtius robustus (Cetacea: Eschrichtiidae), from a sandy beach in The Netherlands

An isolated compartment of a whale barnacle is herein described from Recent beach deposits in Zoutelande (Walcheren, The Netherlands). This specimen is identified as belonging to the extant coronulid species Cryptolepas rhachianecti, currently known as an epizoic symbiont of the grey whale Eschricht...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Zootaxa
Main Authors: BOSSELAERS, MARK, COLLARETA, ALBERTO
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Mangolia Press 2016
Subjects:
Crustacea
Thoracica
Mysticeti
North Sea
palaeobiogeography
commensalism
cetacean migrations
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Pacific
Sandy Beach
Northeast Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4154.3.8
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4154.3.8

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