Even if the parasite is removed, the crab does not revert.
Meet Sacculina carcini – a barnacle that makes a living as a real-life body-snatcher of crabs. Unlike most barnacles that are happy to simply stick themselves to a rock and filter food from the water, ...
A female larva of this species attaches itself to a crab and grows branching routes through the unfortunate host. She produces a mass of eggs in her body below the crab's abdomen (see picture), which ...
EVERY text-book of zoology mentions, as one of the stock examples of degeneration, the curious cirripede, Sacculina, which lives as a parasite on crabs. Through the researches of Prof. Delage, more ...
Sacculina gonoplaxae Guérin–Ganivet, 1911, is a Rhizocephalan parasite on Goneplax angulata (Pennant) [= Gonoplax rhomboides, L.]. Full details of the taxonomy of the genera of the family Sacculinidae ...
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Meet Sacculina carcini – a barnacle that makes a ...
Meet Sacculina carcini – a barnacle that makes a living as a real-life body-snatcher of crabs. Unlike most barnacles that are happy to simply stick themselves to a rock and filter food from the water, ...
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