isopod

/ahy-suh-pod/US // ˈaɪ səˌpɒd //UK // (ˈaɪsəʊˌpɒd) //

异体动物,异足动物,类人猿,异体人

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any freshwater, marine, or terrestrial crustacean of the order or suborder Isopoda, having seven pairs of legs typically adapted for crawling, and a dorsoventrally flattened body, and including wood lice, several aquatic parasites of crabs and shrimps, and numerous swimming or bottom-dwelling species.

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : of, relating to, or characteristic of the Isopoda.
- : having the feet all alike, or similar in character.

They also may include giant isopods, which burrow into the body.
In his paper on the development of the fresh-water Isopod, Asellus, Rathke returns to this point.
This little crustacean is associated in its work on submerged timber with the isopod Limnoria lignorum.
The male of this isopod, which inhabits the bay of Christiansand, is not yet known.
The marine isopod Idotea entomon, related to the common wood-louse, has a similar distribution.
Bucholz has recently described a new kind of isopod, allied to the lyriopes, which lives on the Hemioniscus.