Tags: Crustacean.

Thompsonia is a genus of barnacle which has evolved into an endoparasite of other crustaceans including crabs and snapping shrimp. It spreads through the host’s body as a network of threads and produces many egg capsules which emerge through joints in the host’s shell.

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