Anelasma squalicola (+) Parasitism (-) Etmopterus spinax

Observation

On the Origin of a Novel Parasitic-Feeding Mode within Suspension-Feeding Barnacles. The barnacle Anelasma squalicola is a parasite of the velvet belly lantern shark. It extracts nutrition from the host via the shark-tissue-embedded peduncle.

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