Sacculina is a genus of barnacles that is a parasitic castrator of crabs. They belong to a group called Rhizocephala. The adults bear no resemblance to...

Sacculina carcini, the crab hacker barnacle, is a species of parasitic barnacle in the family Sacculinidae, in particular a parasitic castrator, of crabs...

Triangulidae Høeg & Glenner, 2019 Clistosaccus paguri (Akentrogonida) Sacculina carcini on host (Kentrogonida) The Rhizocephala have not so far been found...

reproduction. It is seen in fiction in Philip Fracassi's 2017 horror novella Sacculina, named for a genus of barnacle-like crustaceans with this lifestyle. It...

specialised barnacle genus Sacculina specifically cause damage to the gonads of their many species of host crabs. In the case of Sacculina, the testes of over...

conducted on Sacculina carcini, a parasitic barnacle, as a potential biological control agent of C. maenas. In the laboratory, Sacculina settled on, infected...

Crab with egg sac of the parasitic barnacle Sacculina carcini. The parasite stops reproduction in its host, the crab, and stimulates the female crab to...

of life. Barnacles of the superorder Rhizocephala, including the genus Sacculina, are parasitic castrators of other arthropods, including crabs. The anatomy...

Siphonaptera (fleas) Tabanidae (horse flies) Tantulocarida Triatominae Pea crab Sacculina Hirudinea (some leeches) Monogeneans are flatworms, generally ectoparasites...

taken to the logical extreme in the Rhizocephala crustaceans, like the Sacculina, where the male injects itself into the female's body and becomes nothing...

Loxothylacus aristatus, Loxothylacus corculum, Sacculina gordonae, Sacculina robusta, Sacculina spinosa and Sacculina weberi. The meat of Atergatis floridus,...

likely to be members of Multicrustacea.[citation needed] Copepod Sacculina Sacculina carcini (Rhizocephala) parasite of a crab. Anew Lepas anatifera (Lepadiformes)...

pleopods in certain Anomura and crabs. In a more extreme example, the Sacculina and other Rhizocephala have a distinctive nauplius larva with its complex...

1960s demonstrated that the two were different species, Sacculina carcini on C. maenas, and Sacculina gibbsi on P. armata. Charles Fransen & Michael Türkay...

of Time Travel (2025, Orbit) Mother (2015) Altar (2016) Shiloh (2017) Sacculina (2017) "Ateuchus" (2018) Commodore (2021) "Death, My Old Friend" (2021)...

elliptica, and fish. P. holsatus sometimes hosts the parasitic barnacle Sacculina. Michael Türkay & Charles Fransen (2010). "Liocarcinus holsatus (Fabricius...

with whitish feet, annulated with red. The barnacles of the species Sacculina granulosa are parasitic castrators of these crabs. This species is present...

no mitigation against these crabs. A natural enemy of H. sanguineus is Sacculina polygenea, a parasite that attacks adult shore crabs and is specific to...

initially only included H. hians. Smith circumscribed a genus distinct from Sacculina due to a difference of the mesentery; in Heterosaccus, the mesentery does...

emergence (in case of males). Members of the order Rhizocephala such as Sacculina carcini alter male hosts' hormonal balance, to encourage nurturing behavior...

was well known in parasites, and Lankester gave several examples. In Sacculina, a genus of barnacles which is a parasite of crabs, the female is little...

Heterosaccus Smith, 1906 Loxothylacus Boschma, 1928 Ptychascus Boschma, 1933 Sacculina Thompson, 1836 Sesarmaxenos Annandale, 1911 "World Register of Marine...

The alien parasites are based on a real-life parasitic castrator named Sacculina that preys upon crabs. The location, a decommissioned NORAD microwave...

on the carapace. L. marmoreus is sometimes parasitised by the barnacle Sacculina. Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum:...

and Tohru Takahashi. They included three species, all transferred from Sacculina. The generic name polyascus (poly "many" + ascus "bag") refers to the...

Australian waters were infected with parasitic barnacles of the genus Sacculina. Charybdis hellerii has been cultivated in the Philippines and is commercially...

Protaspis theory that the two are related 24 Kentrogon development into Sacculina 16 Isopod Phylogeny comment about ideas a baby woodlouse 12 The Millipede's...

Edinburgh. The portrait head was sculpted by David Watson Stevenson. Sacculina andersoni Giard, 1887, a parasitic barnacle. Japalura andersoniana Annandale...

color varies from pale pink to pale yellow. The barnacles of the species Sacculina captiva are parasitic castrators of these crabs. This species is present...

Family: Sacculinidae Genus: Loxothylacus Species: L. panopaei Binomial name Loxothylacus panopaei (Gissler, 1884) Synonyms Sacculina panopaei Gissler, 1884...