(Bocquet-Védrine, 1967)

Description:
Externa more or less rounded and featureless; very similar to Chthamalophilus delarge , but slightly larger and more elongate, with branching roots within the host. Larvae hatch as modified cyprids lacking thoracic limbs.

Habitat:
On Balanus improvisus , attached to the lining of the mantle cavity. Infection rate up to 90%, usually gregarious, up to 40 per host.

Distribution:
So far only recorded from western Europe.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Crustacea
Subclass Cirripedia
Order Rhizocephala
Family Chthamalophilidae
Genus Boschmaella
Species balani

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Boschmaella balani (Bocquet-Védrine, 1967)

Sorry, there are no scientific synonyms and common names available for this species

Isaac, M.J. & J. Moyse, 1990. Crustacea I: Entomostraca. In: The Marine Fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe (eds. Hayward and Ryland, 1990). Clarendon Press, Oxford.

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