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Sylon hippolytes
(Shrimp Parasitic Barnacle)
© Aaron Baldwin (Photo ID #95867)
Photographer's Submitted Details
Photo Location
Cholmandeley Sound, Southeastern Alaska
Photographer
Aaron Baldwin
Habitat
Parasitic on caridean shrimps
Photo Date
September 17, 2016
Upload Date
September 19, 2016
Elevation (m)
UTM Zone #
Latitude
UTM Easting
Longitude
UTM Northing
Photo ID #
95867
Notes
This is the cosmopolitan rhizocephalan barnacle Sylon hippolytes. Like its relatives on crabs, the parasite enters the host as a cyprid larva then grows into a network of tendrils invading every body system. When the barnacle is ready to reproduce it produces a sack-like externae that is filled with embryos. The externae is on the abdomen of the shrimp where normally the shrimp's embryos would develop.
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