What kind of creature can survive in a fish's body?

luap

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I went fishing with my dad for skipjack, and when my mom gutted the fish at home, we found this WEIRD thing...like a triop-snail-cockaroach LIVING in the fish after we caught it. It's about a half inch long and a quarter inch wide, maybe the size of a fingernail. It has a purple shell with white stripes going horizonal along it's shell. It just molted of pooped something...and I know that there's a lot of weird bugs out there, but can you give me an idea of what it is?
I'm just very curious for what it really is. Because it has the strength to survive in the fish and live after the fish dies.
It's like a shrimp-crustacean.
 
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