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During the South Java Deep Sea Survey (SJADES 2018), very large isopods with a total length of more than 36cm were brought to the surface at great depths in the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java by means of a trawl.
The first photo shows a male of this species.
We have provided you with a link, with which you can have a closer look at such large isopods in the Florida Keys Aquarium.
Source:
Description of the supergiant isopod Bathynomus raksasa sp. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from southern Java, the first record of the genus from Indonesia
Autoren: Conni M. Sidabalok, Helen P.-S. Wong, und Peter K. L. Ng
Zookeys. 2020; 947: 39–52.
Published online 2020 Jul 8. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.947.53906
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The first photo shows a male of this species.
We have provided you with a link, with which you can have a closer look at such large isopods in the Florida Keys Aquarium.
Source:
Description of the supergiant isopod Bathynomus raksasa sp. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from southern Java, the first record of the genus from Indonesia
Autoren: Conni M. Sidabalok, Helen P.-S. Wong, und Peter K. L. Ng
Zookeys. 2020; 947: 39–52.
Published online 2020 Jul 8. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.947.53906
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
