Symbion pandora

Symbion pandora is a jug-shaped microscopic aquatic animal that dwells on the mouth-parts of Norway lobsters. The animals are less than ½ mm wide, with sac-like bodies, and three distinctly different forms in different parts of their three-stage life cycle.

Symbion pandora
Symbion pandora
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cycliophora
Class: Eucycliophora
Order: Symbiida
Family: Symbiidae
Genus: Symbion
Species:
S. pandora
Binomial name
Symbion pandora
Funch & Kristensen, 1995
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