''Cryptolepas'' is a genus of whale barnacles in the family
Coronulidae
Whale barnacles are species of acorn barnacle that belong to the family Coronulidae. They typically attach to baleen whales, and sometimes settle on toothed whales. The whale barnacles diverged from the turtle barnacles about three million years ...
. There are two described species in ''Cryptolepas'', one of which is extinct.
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Species
These species belong to the genus ''Cryptolepas'':
* ''Cryptolepas rhachianecti
''Cryptolepas rhachianecti'' is a species of whale barnacle that lives as a passenger on the skin of gray whales and certain other species of whale in the northern Pacific Ocean.
Description
''Cryptolepas rhachianecti'' can grow to a diameter o ...
'' Dall, 1872
* † '' Cryptolepas murata'' Zullo, 1961
References
Barnacles
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