Cryptolepas rhachianecti

Cryptolepas rhachianecti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Thecostraca
Subclass: Cirripedia
Order: Balanomorpha
Family: Coronulidae
Genus: Cryptolepas
Species:
C. rhachianecti
Binomial name
Cryptolepas rhachianecti
Dall, 1872[1]

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.

  1. ^ Van Syoc, Robert (2013). "Cryptolepas rhachianecti Dall, 1872". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 27 January 2019.