Defn: Any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of Cymothoa, Livoneca, and allied genera, mostly parasites on fishes.
Defn: Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.
This little crustacean is associated in its work on submerged timber with theisopod /Limnoria lignorum/.
Sometimes a prawn is found having what appears like a very swollen throat, which actually is a little parasitic isopod of the family /Bopyridae/ attached to its gills.
Teredo/ does not, like the boring isopod /Limnoria lignorum/, feed upon the wood.
The oldest known isopodis Oxyuropoda ligioides Carpenter and Swain (Proc.
Passing over the fact that the oldest isopod now known is Devonian, the fossils in question seem to me quite trilobite-like.
If this interpretation can be sustained, Oxyuropoda would be a very primitive isopod in which the first thoracic segment (second of Carpenter and Swain) is still free.
We did some dredging here on a smooth sandy bottom, the principal results of which were specimens of the Chimaera (Callorhynchus australis), and some curious Isopod Crustaceans of the genus Serolis.
On our own coast the most destructive is a little Isopod known as the "Gribble" (Limnoria lignorum--Fig.
They have, however, a broad, flattened body, more like that of an Isopod than an ordinary Amphipod, and their legs have strong curved claws with which they cling to the skin of their host.
When hatched from the egg, the free-swimming larvae have a short and broad body, and, as in other Isopod larvae, have only six instead of seven pairs of legs.
If the lower edge of the carapace be raised, it will be seen that this swelling is due to the presence in the gill cavity of an Isopod parasite (Bopyrus squillarum).
The wide efferent canals of this sponge afford a convenient shelter to small crustacea, and the isopod Tachaea spongillicola, Stebbing (see p.
Isopod Tachaea spongillicola[AF], the adults of which are found in the canal of this and other sponges, while the young cling to the external surface of the carapace of Palaemon lamarrei and other small prawns.
Isopod (Tachaea spongillicola) that makes its way into the oscula of Spongilla carteri and S.
The latter, as is well known, is the only Isopod which possesses a secondary flagellum on the anterior antennae.
Spence Bate writes to me: "Apseudes, as far as I know, is the ONLY Isopodin which the antennal scale so common in the Macrura is present on the lower antenna.
This parasite is an Isopod (Bopyrus), the appendages of which are imperfectly developed.
In the same association we also find the Liriope, a little isopod 28 crustacean, of which much has been said, but which for a long time obstinately resisted all attempt at observation.
This latter personage is an isopod crustacean, of moderate size, which chooses the Peltogaster as a place of abode, after having undergone a very curious regressive metamorphosis.
The abdomen of these paguri is not only sheltered in a shell, but habitually visited by isopod crustaceans, described under the names of Athelea, Prosthetes, and Phryxus, which have entirely lost the livery of their order.
This isopod crustacean, living at first in the same manner as the rest, looks out for a small cyprinoid fish, thrusts itself like a trocar behind the abdominal fins, through the scaly skin, and penetrates entirely into the abdominal cavity.
But of all crustaceans, the most cruel is the isopod named Ichthyoxena, which hollows out for itself and its female a large dwelling-place in the coats of the stomach of a cyprinoid fish.
In the course of this, he described an isopod with a development as completely recurrent as that of the peltogasters, whose rank among cirrhipeds is perfectly established.
Professor Semper has also found among the Philippine Islands, isopod crustaceans living as messmates after the manner of the peltogasters.
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