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Abyssal copepods are these creatures, in case you don't know your Mystery Flesh Pit lore.
@EVNautilus @WHOI 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😘 #25DaysOfFishmas
deep one sketch, i cant stress enough how absolutely terrifying parasitic copepods are
#lovecraft #parasiticcopepods
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
Everyone is talking about parasitic crustacean now ?
Here are parasitic copepods
Ergasilus thatcheri, Choniomyzon inflatus, Ommatokoita elongata
Höök Lab mobile! @fishdudeski’s calanoid copepods and daphnia are quarantining with me off-campus. There’s even a custom plankton food refrigerator.
Free-living freshwater #copepods: new annotated checklist for continental #Ecuador and the #Galapagos Archipelago features merely 27 taxa, which hints at the fauna having been largely understudied.
Study: https://t.co/qs52t8kAUK
#Crustacea #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #Fauna
Looking at some #freshwater cyclopoid copepods with @Liz_Davidson23: thinking we have Macrocyclops albidus (left) and Paracyclops fimbriatus (right)...? @Hjaltland47 @edeeyto @icdugg #zooplankton
@silomel91 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
#Copepods are the most numerous #animal on the #planet - #GailWight https://t.co/RaxRfSG3MZ #biology #freshwater #SciArt #SciLit17
#SciArt Tweet Storm Day 3: Drawing Parasites
Drawing of parasitic copepods that I've never posted online before