How To Use Isopod In A Sentence
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Several clam species were observed on the sandier flats, and small crabs, amphipods, and isopods were available on the marsh surface.
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The most striking characteristic of isopods is their dorsoventral compression.
Crustacea
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Foods eaten include trichopteran larvae, tendepedid larvae, cladocerans, isopods, crayfish, and copepods.
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These include the isopod Saduria entomon, the amphipod Monoporeia affinis, the Baltic mussel Macoma bathica, a few semi-pelagic opossum shrimp species (Mysidae) and the common sea snail Liparis liparis.
Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden
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Invertebrate stocks that colonized Ascension underwent a variety of evolutionary changes including phyletic evolution leading to endemic status, adaptation to subterranean life (Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones, Collembola, and Psocoptera), character release (phorid Diptera), and probably splitting of lineages (speciation) within the island (Isopoda, Collembola, and gryllid Orthoptera).
Ascension scrub and grasslands
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The body of isopods is divided into three sections; the cephalothorax, the thorax and the abdomen.
Crustacea
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The animal at the left is an Australian Slater, or terrestrial isopod from Lord Howe Island.
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As part of the ANDEEP (Antarctic Benthic Deep-Sea Biodiversity) Project, scientists “spotted 674 species of isopod (a diverse order of crustaceans), most of which had never previously been described; more than 200 polychaete species (marine worms), 81 of which were found to be new species; and 76 sponges, 17 of which had previously been unknown.”
Airborne-Diving in the Southern Ocean
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I could also see large marine isopods, looking like giant marine slaters, and some flower-like sea lilies (crinoids, a group of echinoderms related to starfishes).
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Most of the more recent success stories involve snails, isopods, and other marine animals that have colonized leaf litter or remained in environments close to the seashore.
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Isopods and amphipods spend low tide buried in wrack, where variation in temperature and humidity is strongly damped relative to the exposed intertidal surface.
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The water in the center of the atoll is undrinkable and holds only pond weed and biting isopods (a type of small crustacean).
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In areas where acid rain is most severe, the supplementary calcium-rich foods that female songbirds depend on - snail shells, isopods such as pill bugs, millipedes, and earthworms - may be in short supply.
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Arthropods smaller than 1 mm, ants, isopods, and arthropods with aposematic colorations were excluded from the counts because these are rarely consumed by insectivorous birds.
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Selection for lower foraging activity and lower speed in turn might presumably result from the fact that isopods in the stonewort cannot escape from fish predators by swimming away, but have to rely on combinations of cryptic behavior, morphology and pigmentation to avoid predation.
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The latter mechanism may be selected for in the reed habitat, as reed isopods are faster at escaping and have higher endurance than stonewort isopods.
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Similar phenomena occur in terrestrial and euryhaline aquatic isopods.
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It is important to note that there is evidence that, at least in Lake Krankesjön, these phenotypic changes occurred after colonization of the stonewort, since when isopods were initially sampled shortly after the stonewort started to expand (in 1987) they were phenotypically similar to reed individuals
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Shelled invertebrates also have a home in the collection, including a giant marine isopod (pill bug) from the deep sea below.
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In his first article he mistakes a species of the myriapod genus Glomeris for the isopod genus Armadillo.
Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
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Isopods and amphipods spend low tide buried in wrack, where variation in temperature and humidity is strongly damped relative to the exposed intertidal surface.
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Isopods are negatively phototactic (reathey ct to light by moving away from it), and usually remain hidden under rocks and debris.
Crustacea
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In a recent study, we have showed that in these lakes, stonewort ecotype isopods were smaller in body size and had lighter body pigmentation
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This is a kelp forest: few fish, but sightings of ghost shrimp, lumpsucker, scorpionfish, nudibranchs, comb jellyfish and isopods can be expected.
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The molting style of isopods provides the final problem for the interpretation of fossil isopods.
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Studies of fouled arthropods include horseshoe crabs, isopods, stomatopods, lobsters, and true crabs.
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4. The names of both groups end with the suffix pod; a gastropod is a "stomach-foot", while an isopod is an "equal-foot".
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In addition to fish, Pterois volitans feed on invertebrates such as amphipods, isopods, and other crustaceans.
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They are more stream-profiled and have higher escape speeds than isopods in the newly colonized stonewort habitat, which has higher density of fish predators.
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The Census of Marine Life's ambitious goal is to document all life in the oceans, a task made even harder by creatures that are very difficult to tell apart, such as this little isopod.
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As we watched, cockroaches, earwigs, isopods, and other small arthropods ran to escape the advancing waves of ants.
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The beast normally lives 8, 500ft under water and this specimen is thought to be the largest giant isopod ever found at this depth.
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Studies of fouled arthropods include horseshoe crabs, isopods, stomatopods, lobsters, and true crabs.
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The precopulatory mate guarding of amphipods and isopods is another example of mating effort by males.
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The Socorro isopod is a member of the order Isopoda, which is distinguished from other orders of the class Crustacea by its flattened body and seven pairs of legs.