Whale barnacle

Coronulidae
Coronula on a grey whale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Maxillopoda
Infraclass:	Cirripedia
Order:	Sessilia
Suborder:	Balanomorpha
Superfamily:	Coronuloidea
Family:	Coronulidae Leach, 1817 [1]
Genera
Cetopirus Coronula Cryptolepas Polylepas Xenobalanus

Whale barnacles are barnacles belonging to the family Coronulidae. Whale barnacles attach themselves to the bodies of baleen whales during the barnacles's free-swimming larval stage. Though often described as parasites, the relationship is an example of obligate commensalism, as the barnacles neither harm, nor benefit, their host.^[2]

References

1. ^ "Coronulidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=89671. Retrieved September 20, 2010. 
2. ^ Yasuyuki Nogata & Kiyotaka Matsumura (2006). "Larval development and settlement of a whale barnacle". Biology Letters 2 (1): 92–93. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2005.0409. PMC 1617185. PMID 17148335. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1617185. 

External links

• Data related to Coronulidae at Wikispecies

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