Competition for space drives many marine propagules to colonize the external surfaces of
other marine organisms, a phenomenon known as epibiosis. Epibiosis appears to be a …

Sea turtles migrate thousands of miles annually between foraging and breeding areas,
carrying dozens of epibiont species with them on their journeys. Most sea turtle epibiont …

Barnacles that are obligate epizoites of sea turtles are not parasites in the traditional sense.
However, they can impair their hosts in some instances, disqualifying the association as …

Movement is a fundamental characteristic of life, yet some invertebrate taxa, such as
barnacles, permanently affix to a substratum as adults. Adult barnacles became 'sessile'over …

Trace fossils preserved in fossilized tissues provide a key resource for exploring the
paleoecology of past ecosystems. Endobiont organisms are commonplace in modern …

There is a wealth of published information on the epibiont communities of sea turtles, yet
many of these studies have exclusively sampled epibionts found only on the carapace …

Simple Summary Epibionts are organisms that live or grow attached to other living beings,
and sea turtles can be suitable habitat for these organisms because they provide a large …

We report on four brachyuran crabs collected from the carapaces of loggerhead sea turtles
Caretta caretta nesting on Yakushima Island in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan. Three of these …

The present paper reports the distribution of Epistylididae (Sessilida) epibiotic ciliates on the
signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus in relation to specialized structures of the host's …

Positive blood cultures have been identified in debilitated, stranded, and deceased green
turtles (Chelonia mydas), suggestive of septicemia. Interpretation of these results is often …