Parasite of the Day

Pea crabs are a type of tiny crabs that live mostly in bivalve shellfish such as mussels, oysters, and scallops. Scientifically known as pin...

The bay scallop ( Argopecten irradians ) is a highly prized shellfish, but it has suffered through a rough history from overharvesting, habi...

Parasites are known for their complex life cycles, especially among parasitic flatworms such as flukes. And the flukes that are being featur...

Pearls may look beautiful to us, but for some parasites, they represent a slow and claustrophobic death. Pearls are secreted by the soft and...

Fish blood flukes are common parasites in the aquatic environment and many species have been described from all kinds of fish all over the ...

Scallops are highly prized as seafood because of their tasty adductor muscle and roe, but humans are not the only ones with a taste for scal...

Life as a pea crab seems pretty sweet, you spend most of your time sitting snug and protected within the armoured shelter of a shellfish, wh...

Photo taken by and used with permission from Kirill V. Galaktionov Today's post is bit of a trip down nostalgia lane for me, as the...

In June 2010 at Folly Beach, South Carolina, the local community was shocked and dismayed by the sight of millions of dead dwarf surf clams ...

Yesterday you met a copepod that lives in the mantle of bivalves. Today, meet a turbellarian (a platyhelminth) that could be cozying up to ...

Pseudomyicola spinosus is a parasitic copepod that is found in more than 50 species of bivalves around the world, ranging from clams to mus...

The purpose of this blog is to celebrate parasite biodiversity, but what some people might not realise is that much of parasite biodiversity...

Stegotricha enterikos is a parasite of oysters and has been found infecting them on both coasts of North America. They are quite prevalent...

How many kind of food can you name comes with its own side dish? Well, the eastern oyster ( Crassostrea virginica ) should be on that list. ...

Do you enjoy seafood? Especially shellfish? Especially raw oysters? Whether you know it or not, the next time you tuck into some raw oysters...

Some crabs, like hermit crabs, live in the discarded shells of mollusks, but some, like the pea crab Pinnotheres pisum , just can't wait...

Mussels may seem like unassuming creatures, hanging out on the riverbed until they’re caught and served with a delicious garlic butter sauce...

Curtuteria australis Allison 1979 (Platyhelimthes: Digenea: Echinostomatidae) infects bivalves (in this case, a cockle, a type of clam) on...