Isopod
Isopods are animals that belong to an order of peracarid crustaceans. This order is called Isopoda. The name Isopoda derives from the Greek roots (iso-, meaning "same") and (podos, meaning "foot"). Some isopod species live in water, like the tongue louse. Others live on land, like woodlice and pill bugs.
| Isopoda Temporal range: Carboniferous (300 – 0 Ma)
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| Order: | Isopoda Latreille, 1817
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Description
Isopods can be half an inch long. They are usually gray, brown or black, with an oval-shaped body. They have seven armor plates, called "pereonites," which protect them. They also have seven pairs of short legs. Isopods have two pairs of antennae; one pair feels along the ground.
Isopods have gills and need water to breathe. Because of this, the isopod species which live on land must stay in moist places.
Isopod Media
- Porcellio scaber - male side 2 (aka).jpg
The woodlouse Oniscus asellus showing the head with eyes and antennae, carapace and relatively uniform limbs
- Hypsimetopidae, Marrawah TAS 7330, Australia imported from iNaturalist photo 106796687.jpg
A phreatoicidean isopod, in Australia
- Numbers of marine Isopoda (except Asellota and crustacean symbionts) in biogeographic regions.png
Numbers of marine Isopoda (except Asellota and crustacean symbionts) in biogeographic regions
- Representative marine isopod forms.png
Representative marine isopod forms
- Spicara flexuosa + Anilocra.jpg
Anilocra (Cymothoidae) parasitising the fish Spicara maena, Italy
- Armadillidium vulgare 001.jpg
Armadillidium vulgare on the move...
...and rolled into a ball.
Related pages
Other websites
- 16x16px Media related to Isopod at Wikimedia Commons
- 16x16px Data related to Isopod at Wikispecies
