Two new cryptic and sympatric species of the king crab parasite Briarosaccus (Cirripedia: Rhizocephala) in the North Pacific

Rhizocephalan barnacles have been reported to parasitize a wide range of king crab species (Lithodidae). So far all these parasites have been assigned to a single species, Briarosaccus callosus Boschma, 1930, which is assumed to have a global distribution. Here we investigate Briarosaccus specimens...

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Published in:Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Main Authors: Noever, Christoph, Olson, Andrew, Glenner, Henrik
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2016
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Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706646/
https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12304