-
network of thread-like
extensions penetrating the body of the host.
Adult rhizocephalans lack appendages, segmentation, and all
internal organs except gonads...
- (2006). "Sacculina nectocarcini, a new
species of
rhizocephalan, a new
species of
rhizocephalan(Cirripedia: Rhizocephala)
parasitising the red rock...
-
careproctus simultaneously. King
crabs are
additionally parasitized by
rhizocephalan genus Briarosaccus, a type of barnacle. The
barnacle irreversibly sterilizes...
- that
barnacles were
limited to pseucoco****tion or hermaphroditism.
Rhizocephalan barnacles had been
considered hermaphroditic, but
their males inject...
- nocturnal. A.
floridus is host to the
isopod Gigantione hainanensis and the
rhizocephalan barnacles Loxothylacus aristatus,
Loxothylacus corculum,
Sacculina gordonae...
-
shrimp by
absorbing the
reproductive energy of the host. Many
other Rhizocephalan have the same
castrating characteristic. The
presence of the parasite...
- For example,
mature female blue
crabs infected with the
parasitic rhizocephalan barnacle Loxothylacus tex****
appear extremely stunted in
growth when...
- of
Broyles collapses on ****ignment, his
heart being constricted by a
rhizocephalan like
parasite which is
slowly working its
roots into his circulatory...
-
Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging. 3: 234–237. Boschma, H. (1960). "A
Rhizocephalan Parasite of the Crab
Charybdis hoplites (Wood-Mason)". Crustaceana....
- ; Sharina,
Svetlana N.; Noever, Christoph; Glenner,
Henrik (2024). "
Rhizocephalan barnacle Briarosaccus hoegi sp. nov. – a
parasite of the
stone crab...
