Sketch of Maverick as a copepods
Maverick belongs to

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Abyssal copepods are these creatures, in case you don't know your Mystery Flesh Pit lore.

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The eyes aren't their only weird feature. Though the body is at most 28cm, the length is tripled by a pair of long, soft tail rays. The mouth is hinged so that the interior opens rapidly to suck up copepods, giving this fish a permanent puckered-up expression😘

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deep one sketch, i cant stress enough how absolutely terrifying parasitic copepods are

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Life as a fish means that sometimes, you have eldritch-looking copepods with long skinny necks stick their anchor-shaped head into your bodily tissue, so that they can drink your sweet, sweet teleost blood 
https://t.co/lKKizHxlxT

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Everyone is talking about parasitic crustacean now ?

Here are parasitic copepods

Ergasilus thatcheri, Choniomyzon inflatus, Ommatokoita elongata

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cestodes have a complex life cycle, so the stickleback probably ate infected copepods or other small crustaceans. Never saw it coming😏
Figure from: https://t.co/Ey3JnAwJM5

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Tweet Storm Day 3: Drawing Parasites
Drawing of parasitic copepods that I've never posted online before

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