Shore crab
This crab is infected with a parasitic barnacle (Sacculinus carcini). A female crab will care for the parasite as though it were her own offspring. If the parasite is living inside a male crab it will make him infertile and cause him to behave like a female crab.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 723/1902
- Category
- Natural History
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Marine Biological Association (from the collection of)
- Common Name
- shore crab
- Simple Name
- crustacean: crab
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914)
