Phronima

Credit: DANTE FENOLIO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Caption: This species of Phronima, an amphipod crustacean, hollows out and lives within the body of a salp. This individual (removed from the salp) was collected between 200 meters depth and the surface in the Sea of Japan, 2007.

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Keywords: amphipod, amphipoda, amphipods, animal, captive, captivity, crustacean, deep sea, deepsea, fauna, fish, hyperiid amphipod, marine, mesopelagic, nature, nekton, pelagos, phronima, phronimidae, pram bug, predator, prey, underwater

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