A new crustacean that resembles a shrimp, or perhaps a tiny dancer, has been discovered amid some Indonesian coral reefs and it’s been named L. eltoni, after pop superstar Elton John.
The discovery of L. eltoni, published in this week’s journal ZooKeys, was helmed by researchers investigating the coral reefs of Raja Ampat, in Indonesia.
L. eltoni was not like Elton John’s rocket man, burning out his fuse down there alone: The creature was unearthed inside an invertebrate nestled in the reef. The pair are in a parasitic relationship, called a “commensal association,” in which the host in the arrangement doesn’t benefit or lose anything in the process.
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