A large number of suspension-feeding aquatic animals (eg bivalves, polychaetes, ascidians,
bryozoans, crustaceans, sponges, echinoderms, cnidarians) have specialized in grazing on …

The coastline of the Korean Peninsula is influenced by three major oceanographic
ecoregions, including the estuarine Yellow Sea ecoregion on the west coast, the warmer …

Barnes (1996). An endemic species of Pollicipes, P. caboverdensis, from Cape Verde
Islands, has since been described, joining the three previously known extant species (P …

Turtle barnacles are common epibionts on marine organisms. Chelonibia testudinaria is
specific on marine turtles whereas C. patula is a host generalist, but rarely found on turtles. It …

The Balanomorpha are the largest group of barnacles and rank among the most diverse,
commonly encountered and ecologically important marine crustaceans in the world …

Whale-associated barnacles are intriguing in terms of their planktonic food sources, mating
habits, and mechanisms of host attachment. We present observations of the whale …

Members of the infraclass Cirripedia, commonly called barnacles, are unique among the
subphylum Crustacea in that they exhibit a biphasic life cycle with a planktonic larval stage …

Chthamalus malayensis is a common intertidal acorn barnacle widely distributed in the Indo-
West Pacific. Analysis of sequences of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I reveals …

Phylogeography of animals provides clues to processes governing their evolution and
diversification. The Indian Ocean has been hypothesized as a 'dispersal corridor'connecting …

Crustacean filter feeders capture oil droplets with the use of their ramified appendages.
These appendages behave as paddles or sieves, based on the system's Reynolds number …