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A Diseased Crustacean

The crustacean Eulimnogammarus verrucosus, endemic to Russia’s Lake Baikal, suffering from a parasitic infection.
The crustacean Eulimnogammarus verrucosus, endemic to Russia’s Lake Baikal, suffering from a parasitic infection. Image: Kseniya Vereshchagina (CC BY 4.0)

This beautiful, tuft-covered crustacean is actually in a bad way. Living in the deepest lake on Earth—Lake Baikal in Russia—the animal was infected by a type of protozoan parasite called a ciliate. This crustacean got a bad case of it, with the infection sprouting on much of its body.

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