An international team of marine biologists recently discovered a unique isopod, a form of crustacean, that has been formally identified as a new species of the genus Booralana.
About Isopod:
Isopods are an order of invertebrates (animals without backbones) that belong to the greater crustacean group of animals, which includes crabs and shrimp.
Scientists estimate that there are around 10,000 species of isopods (all belonging to the order “Isopoda”).
They also live in many different types of habitats, from mountains and deserts to the deep sea, and they are distributed worldwide.
Features:
They are one of the most morphologically diverse of all the crustacean groups, coming in many different shapes and sizes and ranging from micrometres to a half-metre in length.
Isopods oftendo not look alike, but they do have common features. For example, all isopods have two pairs of antennae, compound eyes, and four sets of jaws.
The body of all isopods consists of seven segments, each with its own pair of walking legs.
Isopods have a short abdominal sectioncomposed of six segments, called “pleons,” and one or more of these segments is fused into a tail section.
About half of the known species of isopods live in the ocean. Others live in coastal and shelf waters, moving around on the seafloor or living in plants.
Most are free-living, but a number of marine species are parasitic on other animals.
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