Sacculina carcini: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Hexanauplia
- Order
- Family
- Sacculinidae
- Genus
- Sacculina
- Species
- Sacculina carcini
- Scientific Name
- Sacculina carcini
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sacculina carcini
Sacculina carcini, the crab hacker barnacle, is a species of parasitic barnacle in the family Sacculinidae, in particular a parasitic castrator, of crabs. The crab that most often is used as a host is the green crab, the natural range of which is the coasts of Europe and North Africa. It can be found attached to the crab's abdomen and affects consumption rates by humans.
...Sacculina carcini in languages:
- Czech
- kořenohlavec krabí
- Danish
- Krabbens rodkrebs
- Dutch
- Krabbenzakje
- English
- Crab-hacker barnacle
- French
- Sacculine du crabe vert
- German
- Parasitischer Wurzelkrebs
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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