Tags: Crustacean.

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.

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