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Platylepas hexastylos barnacle in the family Platylepadidae . It is native to the Indo-Pacific Ocean where it lives as a symbiont of such large marine creatures as the dugong (Dugong dugon ), the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas ),[2] olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea ),[3] loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta ).[4]
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Some species of barnacle settle on either a solid substrate or on a living host, but others are obligate commensals , and this latter group includes P. hexastylos . In a study of stranded turtles on the coast of southern Brazil, P. hexastylos and Chelonibia testudinaria P. hexastylos was often associated with the bay barnacle (Balanus improvisus ). In general the barnacles were encrusted on the marginal scutes or the rear of the turtle, but P. hexastylos encrusted securely on soft tissues causing deep wounds. Up to eight P. hexastylos were found on individual turtles.[4]
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^ Zann, Leon P.; Harker, Bryony M. (1978). "Egg production of the barnacles Platylepas ophiophilus Lanchester, Platylepas hexastylos (O. Fabricius), Octolasmis wiarwickii Gray and Lepas anatifera Linnaeus". Crustaceana . 35 2 ): 206–214. doi :10.1163/156854078X00114 .
^ "Turtle epibiont project" . Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 9 February 2017 .
^ a b Bugoni, Leandro; Krause, Lígia; de Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira; de Pádua Bueno, Alessandra Angélica (2001). "Commensal Barnacles of Sea Turtles in Brazil" . Marine Turtle Newsletter . 94
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