Sylon hippolytes  (Shrimp Parasitic Barnacle)

© Aaron Baldwin (Photo ID #2438)

Photographer's Submitted Details

Photo Location	Sitka Sound, Alaska
Photographer	Aaron Baldwin
Habitat	35 meters on cobble
Photo Date
Upload Date	November 23, 2007
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Photo ID #	2438
Comments	A rhizocephalan barnacle that infects shrimp. Most infect crabs. Our king crabs and hermit crabs have their own species of this barnacle. The barnacle itself has infiltrated tentacles to every part of the ship's body. The mass on the abdomen is the embryo sack of the barnacle. The shrimp will defend this mass untill ripe.