An epibiont (from the Ancient Greek meaning "living on top of") is an organism that lives on the surface of another living organism, called the basibiont...

organism that grows on another organism that is not a plant may be called an epibiont. Epiphytes are usually found in the temperate zone (e.g., many mosses,...

Clavicipitaceae. It lives symbiotically with the plant Ipomoea asarifolia as an epibiont. Steiner, Ulrike; Leibner, Sarah; Schardl, Christopher Lewis; Leuchtmann...

ISBN 978-0-87850-138-0. Sandford, F. (2003). "Population dynamics and epibiont associations of hermit crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea) on Dog Island...

methane-seep species farms are closely related to hydrothermal-vent decapod epibionts. Alternatively, it may be a carnivore, although it is generally thought...

1898 by Alexander Emanuel Agassiz. They serve as hosts for the commensal epibiont Waldo arthuri, a galeommatid clam. Kroh, A. (2010). Brisaster latifrons...

and moss growing on Hawkesbury Sandstone at Chatswood West, Australia Epibiont, an organism that grows on another life form Epiphyte Endosymbiont Epiphytic...

mosquitoes, nematodes, prawns and tadpoles. Vorticella has been found as an epibiont (attached to the surface of a living substratum when in its sessile stage)...

Trichodesmium microbiome’s epibiont bacteria include diazotrophs and several cyanobacteria species such as Richelia. Trichodesmium and the epibiont bacteria within...

mycorrhizal fungi. Effect of climate change on plant biodiversity Endosymbiont Epibiont, an organism that grows on another life form Endophyte Epiphyte Epiphytic...

the fish. The authors concluded "Cyclocotyla bellones is thus both an epibiont on the crustacean and a parasite of the fish. It could be considered a...

Taylor, P. D. (1994). "Earliest preservation of soft-bodied fossils by epibiont bioimmuration: Upper Ordovician of Kentucky". Lethaia. 27 (3): 269–270...

corals especially were colonised and encrusted by a diverse range of epibionts, including certain hederelloids as aforementioned. Photosymbiotic scleractinians...

lithophytic, halophytic (or euryhaline), psammon, thermophilic, cryophilic, epibiont (epiphytic, epizoic), endosymbiont (endophytic, endozoic), parasitic, calcifilic...

stranger among us: the occurrence of Cantellius (Balnoidea: Pyrgomatidae) an epibiont of scleractinias in stylasterids (Hydrozoa)". Zoological Journal of the...

turtles". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 24 (3): 409–421. doi:10.1651/C-2476. Epibiont Research Cooperative. 2007. A synopsis of the literature on the turtle...

carbon forms Cheating (biology) Collective animal behavior Detritivory Epibiont Evolving digital ecological network Food chain Kin selection Microbial...

dinoflagellates. : 71  Some scallops, including Chlamys hastata, frequently carry epibionts such as sponges and barnacles on their shells. The relationship of the...

comparison to other bacteria that are associated with humans. It is an obligate epibiont parasite, or an "epiparasite", growing on the surface of its host bacterial...

have a paler and rougher carapace, act as hosts to a greater number of epibionts, have six (instead of three) long spines on either side of the rear carapace...

In life, the external surfaces of sclerites host a diverse array of epibionts: Campylobacterota (formerly Epsilonproteobacteria) and Thermodesulfobacteriota...

macroalgal species and affect the abundance and composition of associated epibionts and macrofauna: including gastropods, crabs, urchins and fish. Its dense...

found in coralheads, however they have also recently been described as epibionts on the giant clam species Tridacna squamosa in the Gulf of Thailand. The...

Yuan, Xunlai; Xiao, Shuhai (September 1, 2021). "One-billion-year-old epibionts highlight symbiotic ecological interactions in early eukaryote evolution"...

week. That is the first time that Lepas anatifera has been recorded as an epibiont of a crocodilian. In thirteenth-century England the word "barnacle" was...

leaf'. The microhabitat on the leaf surface is called a phyllosphere. Epibiont Epiphytes Phyllosphere Epiphytic fungus Parasitic plant Epilith Microbiota...

thorax. These may have been the attachment points of soft bodied sessile epibionts. The mostly complete holotype specimen of Isotelus rex, from Churchill...

parasitic barnacles. A number of sessile animals occasionally settle as epibionts on the exoskeleton of C. pagurus, including barnacles, sea anemones, serpulid...

M.; Henry, Lee M. (June 29, 2023). Dubilier, Nicole (ed.). "A dynamic epibiont community associated with the bone-eating polychaete genus Osedax". mBio...

shards, and beads stuck to it. The plastic pieces had been overgrown by epibionts (organisms that naturally stick themselves to seagrass). Seagrass is part...