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Bob Marley Fish Parasite from Caribbean Named, Gnathia Marleyi
Bob Marley has joined an elite club of having a biological species named after him. A small gnathiids parasitic crustacean blood feeder that infests fish in the shallow eastern Caribbean coral reefs, now known as Gnathia marleyi.
As adults, the parasites don’t eat. “We believe that adults subsist for two to three weeks on the last feedings they had as juveniles and then die, hopefully...