Most people first notice pill bugs while lifting a flowerpot or turning over a log, then watching small gray roly polies curl ...

The study was conducted in Block I of the experimental areas of the Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau (CEPEC/CEPLAC) (14° 45′ 16″ S, 39° 13′ 50″ W), 40 ha, in a system where the cocoa trees are shaded by ...

Diploexochus spinatus sp. nov., female paratype. A, Habitus, lateral view; B, cephalon and pereonite 1, frontal view; C, antennula; D, pereopod 7 dactylus; E, pleopod ...

When animals die in the sea, their dead bodies sink to the seafloor. These lifeless bodies don’t break down right away because the rate of decomposition is much slower in water. You might expect to ...

The huge sea bug (Bathynomus vaderi) joins a group of mysterious deep-sea crustaceans that have remained largely unchanged for millions of years: giant isopods (genus Bathynomus). First discovered in ...

A new genus and species of cymothoidan isopod that lived during the Early Cretaceous epoch has been identified from two well-preserved specimens found in Lebanon. Stemming from a freshwater lake ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The historical discovery and the successive stages in our knowledge of the family Stenasellidae Dudich, 1924, are described. Their ...

Abstract: Isopods are a very diverse group of crustaceans, having colonized habitats from the ocean floor to treetops in tropical forests. Terrestrial isopods comprise a major portion of this ...

So far as I am aware, æstivation among the terrestrial Isopoda (woodlice) is unknown, and among the freshwater forms I know of only one example, that recorded by Mackin and Hubricht 1, who in writing ...

Visitors to Bainbridge Island’s Waterfront Park may spot two unfamiliar installations — something buggy and something blue. The “Something New VII” public art campaign by Arts and Humanities ...

ABSTRACT: The sergestid shrimp Acetes vulgaris has long been an important fishery species in estuaries and coastal waters along the Pang-Rad River, Rayong province, Thailand. In nature, this shrimp ...