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whale louse
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Noun1.whale louse - amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans
amphipod - a kind of malacostracan crustacean
Cyamus, genus Cyamus - whale lice
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Swimming speed of the host has been shown to correlate negatively with intensity of the whale lice Isocyamus delphini (Balbuena and Raga, 1989) and has been hypothesized as an inversely proportional factor in Xenobalanus settlement (Orams and Schuetze, 1998; Aznar et al.
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The callosities are highlighted by intensely colored whale lice.
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Seen up close, the whales are covered with barnacles and whale lice.
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