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Barnacles as Epibionts in Crustaceans from the Great Amazon Reef System (GARS) Northern of Brazil: New Records and New Host Associations

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Associations between crustaceans and its epibionts are widely reported around the world in several aspects as: commensalism, symbiosis, parasitism or mutualism. However, these relations in crustaceans for the northern region of Brazil remains unknown. The specimens were collected during commercial fishing operations along the continental shelf (01°23′53.952″ N; 046°40′46.452″ W) at the depth of 76 m. We report the occurrence of commensalism between the barnacles species Chelonibia testudinaria (Linnaeus, 1758) and Balanus trigonus Darwin 1854 as epibionts of Scyllarides delfosi (Holthuis 1960), while Lepas (Anatifa) anatifera Linnaeus, 1758 was found attached to Spinolambrus pourtalesii (Stimpson, 1871), both groups collected from the Great Amazon Reef System (GARS), Pará State, Brazil. The observation of these associations in marine habitats, expand the knowledge of the host selection by the epibiont and raise the distributional range of all barnacle species reported herein from northern Brazil.

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The authors would like to thank the Center for Research and Management of Fishery Resources of the North Coast (CEPNOR) for the sampled material. Also, we would like to thank Dr. Cristiane Maria Rocha Farrapeira for the help in barnacles identification. The authors would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their precious comments.

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  3. Laboratório de Crustáceos Prof. Dra. Kátia Cristina de Araújo Silva (Labcrus), Instituto Socioambiental e dos Recursos Hídricos (ISARH), Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia (UFRA), Avenida Presidente Tancredo Neves, nº 2501, Terra Firme, Pará, Belém, Brazil

    Flavio de Almeida Alves-Júnior, Déborah Elena Galvão Martins, Kátia Cristina de Araújo Silva & Israel Hidenburgo Aniceto Cintra

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IHAC and AGCMK performed the samples collection and logistic support. FAAJ, DEGM and IHAC photographed the species, and FAAJ, DEGM, AGCMK, IHAC and KCAS wrote the manuscript.

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de Almeida Alves-Júnior, F., Martins, D.E.G., de Araújo Silva, K.C. et al. Barnacles as Epibionts in Crustaceans from the Great Amazon Reef System (GARS) Northern of Brazil: New Records and New Host Associations. Thalassas 38, 1371–1378 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41208-022-00480-y

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