Photo 113029914, (c) Neil McDaniel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Neil McDaniel

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neilmcdaniel

Date

January 8, 2015 03:05 PM PST

Description

This endoparasitic copepod forms swollen galls on the leaves of the sea pen Ptilosarcus gurneyi. Usually a male and female of these tiny and rather ugly copepods are found in each gall. For more information and pictures of these little beasts, see Williams et al, 2016 in Marine Diversity.

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