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whale

see CETACEAN.
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Key words: cyamid; whale lice; Cyamus ceti; ectoparasite; bowhead whale; Balaena mysticetus; Arctic; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Beaufort Sea
Prevalence and abundance of cyamid "whale lice" (Cyamus ceti) on subsistence harvested bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus)
The white patches, called callosities, are actually infested with light-coloured whale lice. Experts are not sure of the purpose of these callosities.
Safer waters, more babies
Swimming speed of the host has been shown to correlate negatively with intensity of the whale lice Isocyamus delphini (Balbuena and Raga, 1989) and has been hypothesized as an inversely proportional factor in Xenobalanus settlement (Orams and Schuetze, 1998; Aznar et al., 2005).
Prevalence of the commensal barnacle Xenobalanus globicipitis on cetacean species in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, and a review of global occurrence

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