![]() In fact temnocephalans are ectosymbionts: animals that occupy a host without causing it any harm. Temnocephalans are misunderstood by fishers, who tend to see them as parasites, or “mites” infesting their food product. Generally, they look like little hands with eyeballs. Various worms and crustaceans live in the gill chambers, but the most visible of these are the flatworms called temnocephalans. Living on crayfish is a lifestyle that is also embraced by a range of invertebrates. The pholeteros are organisms as diverse as insect larvae, worms (oligochaetes and nematods), small crustaceans (copepods, ostracods and amphipods ), frogs, snakes and even small mammals. There are two ways in which you might use freshwater crayfish to make a living: 1) you could reside in the burrows that they dig, and therefore use them as the architects of your world, or 2) you could reside on the crayfish themselves, in which case they are your world.īurrows dug by crayfish are so valued by Australian fauna that the creatures that use them have their own name. ![]() I have written about the freshwater crayfish of Australia before in this column, but I have not told you that one of the special things about them is the animals that rely on crayfish. ![]()
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