• the blind crustacean Polycheles typhlops preys on fish and on other crustaceans, probably acting as an ambush predator?
• the bioluminescent crustacean Vargula hilgendorfii, named after Franz Hilgendorf, was used as a light source by Japanese soldiers in World War II?

Facts on topics related to Crustacea

Crustacean

• Mary's Point in New Brunswick, Canada has the world's highest density of Corophium volutator, a crustacean which is a food source of millions of Semipalmated Sandpipers?
• Poecilostomatoida (pictured) are parasitic crustaceans?
• although their larvae have been known since 1887, the adults of the crustacean group Facetotecta have never been seen?
• the crustaceans known as giant isopods, which live in the depths of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, can grow up to 45 centimetres long?
  
• the bloody-red mysid (pictured), a crustacean native to the Ponto-Caspian region, has recently invaded the North American Great Lakes?
• the recently discovered Speleonectes atlantida is an eyeless crustacean equipped with powerful prehensile limbs and poisonous fangs that function as hypodermic needles?

Decapoda

• Percnon gibbesi is the most invasive decapod species ever to enter the Mediterranean Sea?
• the shrimp Periclimenes dardanicola resides on sea anemones on the shell of the hermit crab Dardanus pedunculatus, in one of the few associations between two decapods?