Strange snail-like creature, page 1
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reply posted on 16-1-2006 @ 11:29 AM by adamneldon
Ok guys, this is what I have found after about a full night of searching.
If you right click on the picture and check the filename it says Gnathia. That's where I started. I went to Google image search and typed in "Gnathia" and I came up with
this page. It's all in Japanese so I went back to goole and used their auto-translate feature and this is the translation I got...



1 kind
of グナチア Gnathia sp.

The arthropoda which very send strange life history. At the time of the larva it is the vampire which lives upon to the bottom-dwelling fish, but when it becomes the adult, the mouth-parts degenerating, the 摂 feed stops doing. So, as for this larva. The crab we would like to see it is visible, but whether or not it is mimesis, it is unclear. This companion is known about 70 kinds, it seems, but the own country product only is verified 1 kind. With, it was written on the old data.


So, back to Google I went. This time I typed in Gnatia Arthropoda with "parasite" in quotation marks. After sifting through a bunch of junk that I could not read I came to this site.

So, there is a reason it looks kinda like a crab... It is a crab larvae that attaches itself to fish like a leech(which would explain the "bulge in the middle").
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