Michael G. Frick Biology and symbionts of sea turtles

• Works at: Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

Described taxa

• 2 Taxa described by Michael Frick

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Frick, M.G. 2013. Clarification on the nomenclatural availability of the turtle barnacle genus Chelolepas (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha: Coronuloidea), a corrigendum to Hayashi (2012). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 93(6): 1579–1580. DOI: 10.1017/S002531541300009X . Reference page. 

• Frick, M.G. 2013. A rejoinder and addendum to Hayashi (2011) regarding the systematics and biology of the turtle and whale barnacles (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha: Coronuloidea). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 96(1): 183–187. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315412000471 Reference page. 

• Frick, M.G.; Zardus, J.D.; Lazo-Wasem, E.A. 2010a: A new Stomatolepas barnacle species (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha: Coronuloidea) from leatherback sea turtles. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 51: 123–136. DOI: 10.3374/014.051.0102

• Frick, Michael G.; Zardus, John D.; Ross †, Arnold; Senko, Jesse; Montano-Valdez, Dulce; Bucio-Pacheco, Marcos; Sosa-Cornejo, Ingmar 2011: Novel records and observations of the barnacle Stephanolepas muricata (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha: Coronuloidea); including a case for chemical mediation in turtle and whale barnacles. Journal of Natural History DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2010.534563 First published on: 18 February 2011 (iFirst)

• Frick, H.; Scharff, N. 2013: Phantoms of Gondwana?—phylogeny of the spider subfamily Mynogleninae (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Cladistics, DOI: 10.1111/cla.12025 Reference page. 

• Frick, M.G.; Zardus, J.D. 2010: First authentic report of the turtle barnacle Cylindrolepas darwiniana since its description in 1916. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 30(2): 292–295. DOI: 10.2307/40665219 JSTORReference page. 

• Frick, M.G.; Zardus, J.D.; Lazo-Wasem, E.A. 2010b: A new coronuloid barnacle subfamily, genus and species from cheloniid sea turtles. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 51: 169–177. Reference page. 

• Ross A. & Frick M.G. 2007. From Hendrickson (1958) to Monroe & Limpus (1979) and beyond: an evaluation of the turtle barnacle Tubicinella cheloniae. Marine turtle newsletter 118: 2–5. Issue PDF Reference page. 

• Ross A. & Frick M.G. 2007. Systematics of the coronuloid barnacles. In: Epibiont Research Cooperative (2007), A Synopsis of the Literature on the Turtle Barnacles (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha: Coronuloidea), 1758–2007. Epibiont Research Cooperative Special Publication, 1, pp 23–38. Reference page. 

• Ross, A. & Frick, M.G. 2011. Nomenclatural emendations of the family-group names Cylindrolepadinae, Stomatolepadinae, Chelolepadinae, Cryptolepadinae, and Tubicinellinae of Ross & Frick, 2007—including current definitions of family-groups within the Coronuloidea (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha). Zootaxa 3106: 60–66. Preview Reference page. 

• Zardus, J.D., Lake, D.T., Frick, M.G. & Rawson, P.D. 2014. Deconstructing an assemblage of “turtle” barnacles: species assignments and fickle fidelity in Chelonibia. Marine Biology 161(1): 45–59. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-013-2312-7 Springer. Reference page. 

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