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- 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...
- reproduction. It is seen in fiction in Philip Frac****i's 2017 horror novella Sacculina, named for a genus of barnacle-like crustaceans with this lifestyle. It...
- of life. Barnacles of the superorder Rhizocephala, including the genus Sacculina, are parasitic castrators of other arthropods, including crabs. The anatomy...
- Triangulidae Høeg & Glenner, 2019 Clistosaccus paguri (Akentrogonida) Sacculina carcini on host (Kentrogonida) The Rhizocephala have not so far been found...
- 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...
- elliptica, and fish. P. holsatus sometimes hosts the parasitic barnacle Sacculina. Michael Türkay & Charles Fransen (2010). "Liocarcinus holsatus (Fabricius...
- Loxothylacus aristatus, Loxothylacus corculum, Sacculina gordonae, Sacculina robusta, Sacculina spinosa and Sacculina weberi. The meat of Atergatis floridus,...
- 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...