Sentences with word «isopod»

Craig McClain holds a giant isopod specimen similar to the one he saw on the ocean floor during his first deep - sea dive.

For all its scope, even the census won't be able to describe each species of isopod or polychaete that squirms in the deep - sea mud.

These insects are both crustaceans (specifically a type called isopods).

For the two experiments, bladder wrack from the Kiel Fjord and smaller species of algae living on it as well as grazers like isopods, amphipods and periwinkles were introduced into the Kiel benthocosms — twelve experimental tanks, each holding a water volume of one and a half cubic meters.

He has also found two isopod species, popularly known as «roly - polys,» and one species of book louse.

Another amazing case, and one difficult to explain in terms of its origin, is that of a small parasitic isopod around Taiwan which infects some fresh - water fish.

He handed the specimen off to world isopod experts Dr. Regina Wetzer, Associate Curator and Director of the Marine Biodiversity Center, and Adam Wall, Assistant Collections Manager for Crustacea at NHM.

With these soft corals we often find our macro like Squat lobsters both hairy and common, squat shrimps, translucent anemone shrimp, nudibranchs, orangutan crabs, hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, mantis shrimps and flatworms as well as isopods.

In addition, the team removed isopods, cords, or both from some samples to examine their effects on soil ecosystems.

Directed by Barry Levinson and produced by Jason Blum and Oren Peli of Paranormal Activity fame, the eco-thriller takes on the real - life, ever - awful isopod, shown below.

Twisted individual that he is, Dave DeWitt emailed me a link to this story about a 2.5 - foot giant isopod that was reeled in while trying to violate an underwater robot.

During one of his expeditions in the Bahamas, Iliffe and his team dropped a chicken leg onto the floor of one of the caves, only to find it replaced by a writhing swarm of hundreds of isopods the next day.

Further south, warming soil is expected to release more and more carbon, but on that point there is some good news: New experiments suggest soil - dwelling crustaceans, called isopods, may help limit how much carbon escapes in the the air.

Even where the food is not so rich, the seafloor is not lifeless; everywhere it is churned by bristle worms and nematodes and pill - bug - like isopods.

These fish, in the Lembeh Strait in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, are home to parasitic isopods that live in the fish's mouth.

Searching for those answers, he's crossed paths with beasts like the giant isopod, a crustacean that, according to McClain, «is essentially just a roly - poly that «s double the size of your shoe.»

But the biggest thing for me is getting to see a giant isopod, which has always captured my imagination, attention and interest.

Instead, the researchers hauled up a startling variety — including bristly polychaete worms, isopod and amphipod crustaceans, mollusks, gastropods, sea urchins, brittle stars, nematode roundworms, and carnivorous sponges.

Another, a flattened invertebrate called an isopod, is the largest terrestrial isopod known in Europe.

Other algae grow on the seaweed to be grazed by snails, isopods and amphipods.

But snails, isopods and amphipods were not able to graze these epiphytes because they suffered from the increased temperature.

We had also sent down an autonomous lander with the sub that had bait attached, and that bait was starting to attract animals — mostly amphipods and isopods, which are small crustaceans.

Her specialty is isopods, segmented crustaceans that thrive in the deepest stretches of the ocean.

At 40 stations in the Southern Ocean, dragging a sled with a net through more than three acres of mud, Brandt found 674 species of isopod.

This newly discovered marine pillbug (or isopod, as it is known to biologists) is directly related to the terrestrial pillbugs found in backyards.

Pentcheff knew the strange looking animal was an isopod but needed help learning more.

- at first it does nt run away, but clings on the surface (that's why it belongs to the «clinger type» isopods)

In the new research on salt alternatives — the first study to ever compare the effects of road salt alternatives and additives on aquatic ecosystems — researchers outfitted 64 mesocosms with many of the important players in an aquatic food web including, algae, zooplankton, amphipods, isopods, and snails.

While inside the fish the isopods reproduce and the male may consume the female, or vice versa.

From the producers of the Paranormal Activity franchise, the film is the next installment in their series following Insidious, and «chronicles an unprecedented biological disaster unleashed from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay - an isopod parasite, carrying a horrific untreatable disease, that jumps from fish to human hosts.

An isopod parasite carries mutated diseases and infects fish and human hosts, replacing them with itself.

«Giant isopods are related to the pill bugs, and they can grow up to 20 inches long.

The wharf roach is an isopod that lives along coasts and shorelines.

[5] Leopard sharks have been reported inside the bay which also provides habitat for young bat rays, feeding on clams, crabs, shrimps, worms, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, various gastropods and isopods.

The main feeding habitat of the western Pacific subpopulation is the shallow (5 — 15 m (16 — 49 ft) depth) shelf off northeastern Sakhalin Island, particularly off the southern portion of Piltun Lagoon, where the main prey species appear to be amphipods and isopods.

There is a large variety such marine vegetation, particularly sea weed, and numerous organisms include abalone, anemones, brown seaweed, chitons, crabs, green algae, hydroids, isopods, limpets, mussels, nudibranchs, sculpin, sea cucumber, sea lettuce, sea palms, sea stars, sea urchins, shrimp, snails, sponges, surf grass, tube worms, and whelks.

While the isopod, a kind of louse, has been known to exist for a while now, discoveries of live specimens are rare.

The BBC reports that «Fishermen near the Minquiers - islands under the jurisdiction of Jersey - found the isopod, a type of louse, inside a weaver fish.»

Not that you'd have to be too concerned anyways — the isopod isn't a threat to humans in the slightest, though it's reportedly vicious, and can deliver quite a little bite.

That's not to say that isopods can halt climate change.

Wood decomposition rates also slowed; apparently, isopods can help counteract the effects of rising temperatures on the carbon stored in the world's forest soils.

But in soil samples with both cords and isopods, the team found, the mass of fungus matched that of control samples in which there were neither cords nor isopods.

In particular, Crowther and his team reasoned, if climate change increases the number of cords lying around, it may also increase the number of isopods — half - inch - long crustaceans otherwise known as pill bugs — that eat them.

In the cautionary tale, massive amounts of steroid - rich chicken waste has been dumped into the water, causing the leech - like isopods to have mutated and move on from a taste for fish tongues to a taste for... human flesh.

And while it's hard to pick a favourite from these dandy demons, I'm going to plump for the giant isopod, who, by contrast with the zombie worms or the frilled shark, looks like he might be willing to negotiate.