Sacculina
SACCULINA
CLASSIFICATION
PHYLUM: ARTHROPODA (Jointed appendages).
SUB-PHYLUM: CRUSTACEA (Biramous appendages).
CLASS: CIRRIPEDIA (Adult sessile or
parasitic).
COMMENTS:
•Commonly called as "Root-headed barnacle".
•Parasitizes crabs. Zoologists were able to discover its real crustacean nature by studyings it embryology having 1st stage nauplius larva.
• Adult loses all arthropodan characters & appears like a fleshy tumour attached to the abdomen of the crab on ventral side & lead a parasitic life on decapod sructures.
•It sends root like structures like mycelium of fungus through peduncle in each appendages of crab & in the body to derive nutrition.
• Appendages, segmentation, mouth, anus, alimentation absent.
•Hermaphroditic,
• Presence of sacculina causes development of many changes in secondary sexual characters of the host.
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