commensally

It is a small crab that lives commensally in the tube of a tube-dwelling worm.

It lives commensally on a number of hosts, including the sea slug Hexabranchus.

Large particles are squeezed out of the net and are eaten by other invertebrates living commensally in the burrow.

A few species live commensally inside the mantle cavity of molluscs and feed on micro-organisms filtered out by the host.

Sociable weaver nests are used commensally by several other bird species, most commonly the Pygmy Falcon.

Shrimp of the genus Urocaridella are often cryptic or live in caves on the reef and are not associated commensally with other animals.

Known to live commensally on and within humans, A. israelii is an opportunistic pathogen and a cause of actinomycosis.

Human herpesvirus 6 lives primarily on humans and, while variants of the virus can cause mild to fatal illnesses, can live commensally on its host.

Tumidotheres maculatus is a species of crab that lives commensally or parasitically in the mantle cavity of molluscs.

Juvenile Alaskan king crabs (Paralithodes camtschaticus) have been observed living commensally on the surface of the mottled star, sheltering between its arms.

Isaea is a small genus of amphipod crustaceans that live commensally on the mouthparts of other crustaceans.

The sedentary species in this genus live on the underside of stones or commensally with their shells loosely attached to other and larger gastropods or invertebrates.

It lives commensally in the tubes of the polychaete worms Terebella californica and Loimia.

Inachus phalangium lives commensally with the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata (snakelocks anemone).

It takes data commensally with the seven-beam Arecibo L-band Feed Array (ALFA).

It lives commensally in the ascidian Pyura pachydermatina (found in the sublittoral waters of the Sydney region of New South Wales), specifically in its atrium.

Their life styles also span the range of the thinkable: most are free-living and carnivorous or scavenging, but others dwell commensally with sponges, mollusks, or echinoderms, and some are parasites.

In zoology, an inquiline (from Latin inquilinus, "lodger" or "tenant") is an animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, or dwelling place of an animal of another species.

Commensal associations sometimes play part on this echinoderm's life; animals like Periclimenes shrimp are sometimes found commensally on the oral or aboral surface of the animal, picking up mucus and detritus.

In addition to the algae in their fur, brown-throated sloths also live commensally with a species of moth, Cryptoses choloepi, which lives in their fur, and lays its eggs in the dung.

Pea crabs are tiny soft-bodied crabs that live commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve molluscs (and the occasional large gastropod mollusc species in genera such as Strombus and Haliotis).

Some of the common species of porcelain crabs in the Caribbean Sea are Petrolisthes quadratus, found in large numbers under rocks in the intertidal, and the red-and-white polka-dotted Porcellana sayana, which lives commensally within the shells inhabited by large hermit crabs.