Coronula diadema
| Coronula diadema | |
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| Coronula diadema on a humpback whale | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Maxillopoda |
| Infraclass: | Cirripedia |
| Order: | Sessilia |
| Family: | Coronulidae |
| Genus: | Coronula |
| Species: | C. diadema |
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Coronula diadema (Linnaeus, 1767) |
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Coronula diadema is a species of whale barnacle only known to live on humpback whales, and also possibly sperm whales and finback whales. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in the 1767 12th edition of his Systema Naturae.
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