The day bringing #Doritos to the #giantisopod display at the Key West aquarium, I found #bathynomus *touch tank* at the Florida Keys Aquarium on Marathon Key

Литерали ма бести, единственный резон почему все еще не убежала жить в лес 🧌

От выходных до выходных
Когда планы есть - случается стресс
Это вызывает желание есть

Когда планов нет - еда становится комфи наградой
Типа под фильмец заточить вкуснях вредных.. Порочный круг 👩‍🦼

А это изопод в очечях
Он ебейши шикарен.
#art #digital #isopod #Bathynomus #sketch #silly #doodle

A giant isopod roaming the ocean floor in the dark

Watch a 40 cm #isopod swim along the ocean floor:

www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/anim...

/cc #Bathynomus

Giant monstrous isopod (bug like crustacean) attacking ship art for a box containing giant isopod curry!

OMG! GIANT ISOPOD CURRY! (Suruga Bay) with AMAZING BOX ART! My thanks to @mattalt.bsky.social who checked the ingredients and confirmed there IS isopod there-but unfortunately not sure which one! #BATHYNOMUS

A giant isopod explores a sandy benthos. White text in a blue box above the isopod reads, "Alternative roomba seeks snacks."

True fact : giant isopods are the deep sea clean up crew. #giantisopod #bathynomus #realliferoomba

While many isopods are parasites, plenty are scavengers! Your local roly poly bugs or pillbugs are isopods! #weirdwednesday #giantisopod #bathynomus #ifnotfriendwhyfriendshaped

Deep sea gigantism gives us wonderful giant isopods! #weirdwednesday #guantisopod #bathynomus

We love the giant isopod around these parts! #weirdwednesday #giantisopod #bathynomus

<p><strong>The new isopod species has been named <em>Bathynomus vaderi</em> after the most famous <em>Sith Lord</em> in the <em>Star Wars</em> movie series, <em>Darth Vader</em>, whose helmet resembles the marine animal’s head.</strong></p> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_102779" style="width: 590px"><a href="https://cdn.sci.news/images/enlarge12/image_13595_1e-Bathynomus-vaderi.jpg"><img alt="Bathynomus vaderi. Image credit: Ng et al., doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1223.139335." aria-describedby="caption-attachment-102779" class="wp-image-102779 size-full" height="710" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2025/01/image_13595_1-Bathynomus-vaderi.jpg" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2025/01/image_13595_1-Bathynomus-vaderi.jpg 580w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2025/01/image_13595_1-Bathynomus-vaderi-245x300.jpg 245w" width="580"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-102779"><em>Bathynomus vaderi</em>. Image credit: Ng <em>et al</em>., doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1223.139335.</p></div> <p>The newly-discovered species belongs to <a href="https://www.sci.news/biology/bathynomus-yucatanensis-11080.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><em>Bathynomus</em></a>, the dominant scavenging <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopoda" rel="noopener" target="_blank">isopod</a> genus in the tropical and temperate deep sea.</p> <p>First described in 1879 by the French zoologist Alphonse Milne-Edwards, this genus includes almost 20 living and four fossil species.</p> <p>These creatures are abundant in the cold, deep waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.</p> <p>They are well known because of their gigantism, with some species reaching large sizes in excess of 30 cm (11.8 inches) length.</p> <p>They are noted for their resemblance to the much smaller common woodlouse, to which they are related.</p> <p>And, just like woodlouse, although they perhaps look a little scary, they are completely harmless to humans.</p> <p>“Over the last seven years, <em>Bathynomus</em> has become increasingly popular in Vietnam as a delicacy in contemporary culinary culture, and it has even been compared to lobsters for the quality of the flesh,” said National University of Singapore researcher Peter Ng and colleagues.</p> <p>“The demand has resulted in increased fishing efforts to collect <em>Bathynomus</em> for the live-seafood market, and specimens have been sold alive in eateries (out of water in chilled boxes) or in cold-water tanks in large restaurants.”</p> <p>“As a result of the seafood trade, we managed to obtain a large series of specimens collected by the Vietnamese fishermen in Quy Nhon City, all of which have been obtained in the South China Sea.”</p> <p>“While most of the material can be referred to <em>Bathynomus jamesi</em>, six specimens were distinct in having a differently shaped clypeal region and pleotelson structure, with the appendix masculina distinctly shorter.”</p> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_102780" style="width: 590px"><a href="https://cdn.sci.news/images/enlarge12/image_13595_2e-Bathynomus-jamesi.jpg"><img alt="Dr. Nguyen Thanh Son holding a giant specimen of Bathynomus jamesi (weighs 2.62 kg) from a seafood market in Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2024. Image credit: Peter Ng." aria-describedby="caption-attachment-102780" class="wp-image-102780 size-full" height="773" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2025/01/image_13595_2-Bathynomus-jamesi.jpg" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2025/01/image_13595_2-Bathynomus-jamesi.jpg 580w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2025/01/image_13595_2-Bathynomus-jamesi-225x300.jpg 225w" width="580"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-102780">Dr. Nguyen Thanh Son holding a giant specimen of <em>Bathynomus jamesi</em> (weighs 2.62 kg) from a seafood market in Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2024. Image credit: Peter Ng.</p></div> <p>Named <em>Bathynomus vaderi</em>, the new species can reach 32.5 cm (12.8 inches) in length and weigh over 1 kg.</p> <p>The marine animal is known only from the waters near the Spratly Islands in Vietnam.</p> <p>It is the fourth <em>Bathynomus</em> species with upwardly curved spines and the second supergiant in the South China Sea.</p> <p>“The discovery of a species as strange as <em>Bathynomus vaderi</em> in Vietnam highlights just how poorly we understand the deep-sea environment,” the researchers said.</p> <p>“That a species as large as this could have stayed hidden for so long reminds us just how much work we still need to do to find out what lives in Southeast Asian waters.”</p> <p>“There is an urgent need to better understand our deep-sea biodiversity as humans increasingly endeavor to exploit this habitat for fisheries, oil and gas, and even minerals.”</p> <p>“The sustainable fishery of giant isopods just adds to the many challenges we face. And the first step is to know what lives there.”</p> <p>The team’s <a href="https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/139335/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">paper</a> was published in the journal <em>ZooKeys</em>.</p> <p><span style="color: #808080;">_____</span></p> <p><span style="color: #808080;">P.K.L. Ng <em>et al</em>. 2025. A new species of supergiant <em>Bathynomus</em> A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from Vietnam, with notes on the taxonomy of <em>Bathynomus jamesi</em> Kou, Chen &amp; Li, 2017. <em>ZooKeys</em> 1223: 289-310; doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1223.139335</span></p>

New Species of Giant Isopod Discovered in South China Sea The new isopod species has been named B...

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<p><strong>The new isopod species has been named <em>Bathynomus vaderi</em> after the most famous <em>Sith Lord</em> in the <em>Star Wars</em> movie series, <em>Darth Vader</em>, whose helmet resembles the marine animal’s head.</strong></p> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_102779" style="width: 590px"><a href="https://cdn.sci.news/images/enlarge12/image_13595_1e-Bathynomus-vaderi.jpg"><img alt="Bathynomus vaderi. Image credit: Ng et al., doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1223.139335." aria-describedby="caption-attachment-102779" class="wp-image-102779 size-full" height="710" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2025/01/image_13595_1-Bathynomus-vaderi.jpg" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2025/01/image_13595_1-Bathynomus-vaderi.jpg 580w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2025/01/image_13595_1-Bathynomus-vaderi-245x300.jpg 245w" width="580"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-102779"><em>Bathynomus vaderi</em>. Image credit: Ng <em>et al</em>., doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1223.139335.</p></div> <p>The newly-discovered species belongs to <a href="https://www.sci.news/biology/bathynomus-yucatanensis-11080.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><em>Bathynomus</em></a>, the dominant scavenging <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopoda" rel="noopener" target="_blank">isopod</a> genus in the tropical and temperate deep sea.</p> <p>First described in 1879 by the French zoologist Alphonse Milne-Edwards, this genus includes almost 20 living and four fossil species.</p> <p>These creatures are abundant in the cold, deep waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.</p> <p>They are well known because of their gigantism, with some species reaching large sizes in excess of 30 cm (11.8 inches) length.</p> <p>They are noted for their resemblance to the much smaller common woodlouse, to which they are related.</p> <p>And, just like woodlouse, although they perhaps look a little scary, they are completely harmless to humans.</p> <p>“Over the last seven years, <em>Bathynomus</em> has become increasingly popular in Vietnam as a delicacy in contemporary culinary culture, and it has even been compared to lobsters for the quality of the flesh,” said National University of Singapore researcher Peter Ng and colleagues.</p> <p>“The demand has resulted in increased fishing efforts to collect <em>Bathynomus</em> for the live-seafood market, and specimens have been sold alive in eateries (out of water in chilled boxes) or in cold-water tanks in large restaurants.”</p> <p>“As a result of the seafood trade, we managed to obtain a large series of specimens collected by the Vietnamese fishermen in Quy Nhon City, all of which have been obtained in the South China Sea.”</p> <p>“While most of the material can be referred to <em>Bathynomus jamesi</em>, six specimens were distinct in having a differently shaped clypeal region and pleotelson structure, with the appendix masculina distinctly shorter.”</p> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_102780" style="width: 590px"><a href="https://cdn.sci.news/images/enlarge12/image_13595_2e-Bathynomus-jamesi.jpg"><img alt="Dr. Nguyen Thanh Son holding a giant specimen of Bathynomus jamesi (weighs 2.62 kg) from a seafood market in Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2024. Image credit: Peter Ng." aria-describedby="caption-attachment-102780" class="wp-image-102780 size-full" height="773" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" src="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2025/01/image_13595_2-Bathynomus-jamesi.jpg" srcset="https://cdn.sci.news/images/2025/01/image_13595_2-Bathynomus-jamesi.jpg 580w, https://cdn.sci.news/images/2025/01/image_13595_2-Bathynomus-jamesi-225x300.jpg 225w" width="580"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-102780">Dr. Nguyen Thanh Son holding a giant specimen of <em>Bathynomus jamesi</em> (weighs 2.62 kg) from a seafood market in Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2024. Image credit: Peter Ng.</p></div> <p>Named <em>Bathynomus vaderi</em>, the new species can reach 32.5 cm (12.8 inches) in length and weigh over 1 kg.</p> <p>The marine animal is known only from the waters near the Spratly Islands in Vietnam.</p> <p>It is the fourth <em>Bathynomus</em> species with upwardly curved spines and the second supergiant in the South China Sea.</p> <p>“The discovery of a species as strange as <em>Bathynomus vaderi</em> in Vietnam highlights just how poorly we understand the deep-sea environment,” the researchers said.</p> <p>“That a species as large as this could have stayed hidden for so long reminds us just how much work we still need to do to find out what lives in Southeast Asian waters.”</p> <p>“There is an urgent need to better understand our deep-sea biodiversity as humans increasingly endeavor to exploit this habitat for fisheries, oil and gas, and even minerals.”</p> <p>“The sustainable fishery of giant isopods just adds to the many challenges we face. And the first step is to know what lives there.”</p> <p>The team’s <a href="https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/139335/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">paper</a> was published in the journal <em>ZooKeys</em>.</p> <p><span style="color: #808080;">_____</span></p> <p><span style="color: #808080;">P.K.L. Ng <em>et al</em>. 2025. A new species of supergiant <em>Bathynomus</em> A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from Vietnam, with notes on the taxonomy of <em>Bathynomus jamesi</em> Kou, Chen &amp; Li, 2017. <em>ZooKeys</em> 1223: 289-310; doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1223.139335</span></p>

New Species of Giant Isopod Discovered in South China Sea The new isopod species has been named B...

www.sci.news/biology/bathynomus-vader...

#Biology #Featured #Arthropod #Arthropoda #Bathynomus #Bathynomus #jamesi #Bathynomus #vaderi #Darth #Vader

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La Agencia de Investigación e Innovación de #Indonesia ha publicado el #descubrimiento de un nuevo #insectomarino.

Se trata de un #isópodo del género #Bathynomus, y lo han bautizado con el nombre de #DarthVader debido a su parecido con el casco del personaje de #StarWars.

#orainnoticias #ciencia

#Indonesia -ko Ikerketa eta Berrikuntza Agentziak #itsasintsektu berri baten #aurkikuntza argitaratu du.

#Bathynomus generoko #isopodo bat da eta #DarthVader deitu dute bere buruak #StarWars sagako pertsonaiaren kaskoaren antza baitu.

#orainberriak #zientzia