New species of pea-size crab parasitizing a date mussel has a name of a Roman god

(Pensoft Publishers) Tiny crabs, the size of a pea, dwell inside the mantles of various bivalves, living off the particulate food filtered by the host. A new species of these curious crustaceans has recently been reported from the Solomon Islands which parasitizes a date mussel. Characterized with an additional plate covering its upper carapace, its discoverers, who have published their finding in the open-access journal ZooKeys, have named it after Janus, the Roman two-faced god.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news