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First record of Xenobalanus globicipitis (Cirripedia: Coronulidae) on Stenella coeruleoalba (Cetacea: Delphinidae) in the oligotrophic waters of north-eastern Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2010

Felipe Bezerra Ribeiro ,
Vitor Luz Carvalho ,
Cláudia Maria Leal Bevilaqua  and
Luis Ernesto Arruda Bezerra
Felipe Bezerra Ribeiro
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Campus Pici, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil 60 455-760, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Vitor Luz Carvalho
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Veterinárias, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Campus do Itaperi, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil Associação de Pesquisa e Preservação de Ecossistemas Aquáticos (AQUASIS), Caucaia, Ceará, Brazil
Cláudia Maria Leal Bevilaqua
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Veterinárias, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Campus do Itaperi, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Luis Ernesto Arruda Bezerra*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Campus Pici, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil 60 455-760, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil Departamento de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Avenida Da Arquitetura, s/n 50740-550, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: L.E.A. Bezerra, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Campus Pici, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil 60 455-760, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The present contribution reports for the first time the sessile barnacle Xenobalanus globicipitis as an epizoic of the striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba in the oligotrophic waters of north-eastern Brazil. One barnacle specimen was found on a dead cetacean in Ceará State, north-eastern Brazil. Diagnosis and figures of the barnacle are provided and the relationship between the epizoic and the host discussed.

Keywords

sessile barnacleXenobalanus globicipitisstriped dolphinStenella coeruleoalbaepizoicwestern Atlantic
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Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 3 , June 2010 , e8
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2010

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