Name - Xenobalanus

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:2493123 [metadata]

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Recent Publications

• Observations on Captive and Wild Atlantic Bottlenosed Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico.
• A whale-barnacle of the genus Xenobalanus from Antarctic seas.
• The prevalence of ectoparasitic barnacles discriminates stocks of Atlantic common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) at risk of entanglement in coastal gill net fisheries.
• Epizoic barnacles on Arctic killer whales indicate residency in warm waters.

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