Description: Body compact, up to 5 mm wide, oval and symmetrical in shape with lateral lobes; wine red in colour. Mantle opening opposite the stalk, opening wide. Short posteriorly situated stalk.
Habitat: Parasitic on Galathea squamifera .
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Crustacea Subclass Cirripedia Order Rhizocephala Family Lernaeodiscidae Genus Lernaeodiscus Species squamiferae
Sorry, there are no scientific synonyms and common names available for this species
Isaac, M.J. & J. Moyse, 1990. Crustacea I: Entomostraca. In: The Marine Fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe (eds. Hayward and Ryland, 1990). Clarendon Press, Oxford.
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