nicothoid copepod (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Barbara

nicothoid copepod

Caption

An adult female of the recently discovered nicothoid copepod (dark orange), lives in, feeds off and lays its own eggs (pink) in the developing egg brood (orange spheres) of female crabs

Credit

UC Santa Barbara

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