Idotea aculeata; Isopod; <small>(shown with <a href=/cgi/img_query?where-taxon=Coralline+alga+bossiella+sp.&title_tag=Coralline+alga+bossiella+sp.>Coralline alga bossiella sp.</a>)</small>

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Idotea aculeata; Isopod; (shown with Coralline alga bossiella sp.)

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Idotea aculeata
Isopod
(shown with Coralline alga bossiella sp.)

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0305 0956 (2005-03-30)

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date of photo between 1980 and 1985

latitude 36.54630 longitude -121.93121 max error distance 2866 meters View on Google Maps.

horizontal datum World Geodetic System 1984

georeferencing source GeoLocate

location Carmel Bay (Monterey County, California, US)

order Isopoda

class Malacostraca

habitat Low Intertidal

notes This beautifully camouflaged 10 mm isopod is almost invisible as it aligns itself on a coralline alga. Despite this the species has been found in the stomach of tidepool fishes. Here the head extends to the left beyond the alga.

camera Olympus system for macrophotography

photo category: Animal - Invertebrate-Other

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common names Isopod (photographer)

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