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Dear Alexandre
Barnacles of the suborder Balanomorpha, superorder Coronuloidea are
epibiotic on whales (Cetacea). According to species, the body of the
barnacle is more or less sunk into the skin of the whale host. However,
they
remain filter feeders and their is no evidense that they utilize the
host as
a source of food. They remain "energy parasites".
Sincerely
Jens T. Hoeg, D.sc.
Head of Department of Zoomorphology
Zoological Institute - University of Copenhagen
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From: Alexandre Oliveira de Almeida
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Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 12:20 PM
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Subject: [CRUST-L:472] parasites
Dear Crustlers:
Greetings! I would like to know what crustacean species parasites marine
mammals. Is there some home page destinated to the group?
References?
Thanks in advance.
Regards.
Alexandre Almeida. << File: Card for Alexandre Oliveira de Almeida
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 02:58:21 -1000
From: Curt Fiedler <curt@hawaii.edu>
Subject: [CRUST-L:474] RE: parasites
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Hoeg, Jens T wrote:
> Barnacles of the suborder Balanomorpha, superorder Coronuloidea are
> epibiotic on whales (Cetacea). According to species, the body of
the
> barnacle is more or less sunk into the skin of the whale host. However,
they
> remain filter feeders and their is no evidense that they utilize
the host as
> a source of food. They remain "energy parasites".
And don't forget "whale lice"! :-)
These are amphipods (Caprellidea: Cyamidae) that hang on for dear
life. I'm not sure about much else, however.
-Curt
G. Curt Fiedler, PhD
Zoology Department & Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2538 The Mall, Edmondson hall
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Phone: (808)956-4712
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List,
An interesting question, please send replies to the list and not just
to Dr. Almeida.
All I can think of right now are cyamid amphipods on whates, but I
know of no good reference(s) on the biology of cyamids. Anyone have
one? The one group of amphipods of whom I never got SEMs.
There must be some copepod that parasitized marine mammals, but who?
Phil
>Dear Crustlers:
>Greetings! I would like to know what crustacean species parasites
marine
>mammals. Is there some home page destinated to the group?
>References?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Regards.
>Alexandre Almeida.
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Alexandre
Check out the odd cyamid amphipods, part of the caprellids (e.g., Cyamus
ceti). There are a few papers on their biology but most are species
identifications. Noble & Noble state that there are 5 genera. They
are not
considered parasitic. I've seen some recent papers (<10 yrs old)
on this group.
There are some copepod parasites of whales. References are limited.
Penella
sp. was listed by Dailey (Diseases of Marine Animals, 1985, note that
there
are 3 chapters on diseases of marine mammals in this book), but no
other
refs were given. Note also that there are some insect parasites on
seals
including demodectic mange. Humes (1964)lists a harpacticoid from a
manatee
albeit it was maintained in an aquarium.
Chelonibia, Platylepas, and Balanus may occur on sirenians. Whales also
have Lepas.
Cheers, Jeff
At 09:20 AM 10/25/00 -0200, you wrote:
>Dear Crustlers:
>Greetings! I would like to know what crustacean species parasites
marine
>mammals. Is there some home page destinated to the group?
>References?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Regards.
>Alexandre Almeida.
>
jeff@vims.edu
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:17:47 -0400
From: Chip Biernbaum <biernbaumc@cofc.edu>
Subject: [CRUST-L:477] Fwd: Re: parasites
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For information about cyamids, contact the expert: Todd Haney at UCLA
(haney@ucla.edu). Corwall's 1975 publication on British Columbia
barnacles
lists the following cirripede species as occurring on marine mammals
in
that region: Cryptolepas rachianecti (on grey whales), Coronula complanata
(found on one whale [species not mentioned]), Coronula diadema (on
humpbacks; it is the most common whale barnacle, but apparently only
found
on humpback whales), Coronula reginae (on humpbacks), Conchoderma auritum
(on humpbacks, typically attached to Coronula spp.; also found on vessels,
rocks and floating debris) , Conchoderma virgatum (on humpbacks, typically
attached to other whale barnacles; also found on vessels and floating
debris), Tubicenalla major (on whales [species not mentioned]),
and
Xenobalanus globicipitus (on sei, finback, and pilot whales).
He also
comments on the occurrence of the copepod Penella balaenopterae on
a
finback whale -- interestingly, there was a specimen of Conchoderma
virgatum attached to its "stalk." If anyone is interested, I
have the
authors for each of the barnacle species.
Chip
>Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 08:29:01 -0500
>From: Philip Oshel <peoshel@facstaff.wisc.edu>
>Subject: [CRUST-L:475] Re: parasites
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:46:30 +0200
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From: Dieter =?iso-8859-1?Q?Walo=DFek?= <dieter.walossek@biologie.uni-ulm.de>
Subject: [CRUST-L:478] (no subject)
Saw this too and sent my comments directly. So here also to the list:
After disappointing search by Sherlock (Apple's Internet crawler) for
whale
parasites I found one for the whale louse:
http://www.britannica.com/seo/w/whale-louse/
May be Geoff Boxshall has some idea if some copepodes are fiercy enough
to
attack mammals??
DIETER
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Hi!
There is nice reference on the biology of cyamids:
Rowntree, V. 1996 Feeding, distribution and reprodutive behavior of
cyamids
(Crustacea: Amphipoda) living on humpback and right whales. Can. J.
Zool
74: 103 -109.
Ana Cristina Costa
Secção de Biologia Marinha
Departamento de Biologia
Universidade dos Acores
R. da Mae de Deus 58
9500 Ponta Delgada
PORTUGAL
Tel:+351 296 650000 ext 1706
Fax:+351 296 653455
email: costa@alf.uac.pt
(http://www.uac.pt/db/bmarinha/Index.html)
From: haney@ucla.edu
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Good morning, all,
I have listed some names in response to the messages regarding crustacean parasites on marine mammals. The lists of cirripede and copepod names were compiled from information gleaned only from the literature, and I would certainly be interested in comments on those names. The list of cyamid taxa comes from my M.S. thesis research. In each case, I would be happy to provide additional information if someone is seriously interested (e.g., locality and host data). I have stuffed these data into a FilemakerPro database that also includes lists of acanthocephalans, cestodes, trematodes, nematodes, and even fishes found in association with Cetacea.
Otherwise, the following three references, though incomplete, provide a great start:
Dailey, M. D. and Brownell, R. L., JR. 1972, A checklist of marine mammal parasites, In, Mammals of the Sea Biology and Medicine, S. H. Ridgway, ed. Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Springfield, Illinois, 528-589.
Margolis, L. and Dailey, M. D., 1972, Revised annotated list of parasites from sea mammals caught off the west coast of North America, NOAA Technical Report, No. 647 pp23.
MignucciGiannoni, A.A., Hoberg, E.P., SiegelCausey, D., and Williams, E.H. 1998, Metazoan parasites and other symbionts of cetaceans in the Caribbean, Journal of Parasitology, 84(5):939-946.
AMPHIPODA.-
Cyamus balaenopterae Barnard, 1931
Cyamus boopis Lütken, 1870
Cyamus catodontis Margolis, 1954
Cyamus ceti (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cyamus erraticus Roussel de Vauzeme, 1834
Cyamus gracilis Roussel de Vauzeme, 1834
Cyamus kessleri Brandt, 1873
Cyamus monodontis Lütken, 1870
Cyamus nodosus Lütken, 1860
Cyamus orcini Leung, 1970
Cyamus ovalis Roussel de Vauzeme, 1834
Cyamus scammoni Dall, 1872
Cyamus n. sp. A
Isocyamus antarcticensis (Vlasova in Berzin and Vlasova, 1982)
Isocyamus delphinii (Guerin-Meneville, 1836)
Isocyamus globicipitis (Lütken, 1870)
Isocyamus kogiae Sedlak-Weinstein, 1992a
Neocyamus physeteris (Pouchet, 1988)
Platycyamus flaviscutatus Waller, 1989
Platycyamus thompsoni (Gosse, 1955)
Platycyamus n. sp.
Scutocyamus antipodensis Lincoln and Hurley, 1980
Scutocyamus parvus Lincoln and Hurley, 1974a
Syncyamus aequus Lincoln and Hurley, 1981
Syncyamus pseudorcae Bowman, 1955
CIRRIPEDIA.-
Balaenophilus unisetus
Balaenophilus sp.
Cetopirus complanatus
Conchoderma auritum
Coronula rachianecti
Conchoderma virgatum
Conchoderma sp.
Coronula balaenaris
Coronula diadema
Coronula reginae
Haematophagus sp.
Lepas sp.
Odotobius ceti
Tubicinella sp.
Xenobalanus globicipitis
Xenobalanus sp.
COPEPODA.-
Larnaeonema sp.
Pennella balaenopterae
Pennella filosa
Pennella sp.
I should add that two isopod species (Cirolana sp. and Nerocila sp.) have been recorded from the Franciscana, Pontoporia blainvillei Gervais & d’Orbigny, 1844. However, these animals probably simply hopped aboard the wrong train.
Regards,
Todd
Todd A. Haney, Research and Collections
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
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Los Angeles, California 90007 USA
Telephone: (213) 763-3473
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A particularly interesting reference (that suggests that cyamids actually
benefit the whale, by feeding only on tissue damaged by barnacles):
Samaras, WF & FE Durham 1985. Feeding relationship of two species
of
epizoic amphipods and the gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus. Bulletin
of
the Southern California Academy of Sciences 84: 113-126.
Gregory Jensen
University of Washington
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Copepods? I take it Penella goes on whales!
Jens T. Hoeg, D.sc.
Head of Department of Zoomorphology
Zoological Institute - University of Copenhagen
Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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RE: Samara and Durham (1985) and mutualism between cyamids and gray
whales.
I am unconvinced that the nature of the relationship described by Samaras and Durham is one of mutualism. The paper provides a wealth of great information, but I think it does little to firmly establish that the feeding activity of cyamids causes parasitic barnacles to be dislodged from the hosts. I say this primarily because the observations were made on 7 beached whales that had been dead for up to 2 days. In such circumstances, might the barnacles begin to detach from the whale anyway? I am not sure and perhaps should take a second look at the photographs in the article.
Regards,
Todd
Todd A. Haney, Research and Collections
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
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Los Angeles, California 90007 USA
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Hi all,
>Copepods? I take it Penella goes on whales!
Harpacticoids also (I'm not sure if they are true parasites):
BALAENOPHILIDAE Sars, 1910=20
Balaenophilus P.O. Aurivillius, 1879
Balaenophilus unisetus P.O. Aurivillius, 1879 (see Aurivillius, P. O.
C.,
1879. Balaenophilus unisetosus nov. gen. et spec. Ett Bidrag till
K=E4nnedomen om Harpacticidernas Utvecklingshistoria och systematik.
Akad.
Afhandling, Stockholm, 1879: 1-26, pls. 1-4.)
For a redescription of this species see Vervoort W. & Tranter D.,
1961.
<italic>Balaenophilus unisetus</italic> P.O.C. Aurivillus (Cop.
Harp.)
from the southern hemisphere. Crustaceana, 3: 70-84.
Samuel