Malacostraca

Isopods are one of the crustacean animals in the world. They have different kinds of isopods. In scientific names are called; billbugs, sowbugs and woodlice. According to Dr. Richard Brusca, approximately there are 10,000 of isopods live worldwide (tree from Brusca & Wilson 1991). Isopods have three body parts; head (=cephalon), thorax and abdomen (=plean). Isopods have a fourteen legs. Each side has seven legs. It has two antennas and also simple ayes. Isopods have range in length from 0.5mm to

have been used when the manta was smaller and would need to defend itself against predators. As the mantas became larger in the open ocean, they no longer needed to defend themselves with the sting. Today, mantas have a cartilage stump as a tail where the sting would be connected to. Like all animals, mantas have several predators. Sharks, as well as false killer whales and orcas have been known to eat manta rays. Shark bites are seen in all populations of manta rays, but these bites are quite often

“They see something, walk up to it, pick it up, and maybe beat the crap out of it,” says Justin Marshall, referring to a commonly unknown creature called the Mantis Shrimp. This species often goes overlooked and unnoticed by most of the world and not just because it only grows 2-7 inches (“Peacock Mantis Shrimp” 1). Since it is such an unknown animal, many people do not know what it is or what makes it remarkable. How can the small mantis shrimp, a crustacean whose appearance is more like that of

A Manta Ray is a large devil ray that occurs in all tropical seas . It is seen leaping high out of the water . There 2 types of Manta Rays ; the Reef Manta (Manta Alfredi) and the Giant Manta Ray (Manta Birostris) . The largest species is the Giant Manta Ray , obviously ,it measures up to 9 meters long . Manta Rays eat zooplankton . Manta Rays have the largest brain of all fish . It has gills in the lower body which contains oxygen from the water . Manta Rays avoid contact with humans .

To many owner having saltwater aquarium, live rock is one of the essential things which set the natural tone for the whole tank besides fish and turtles. Not only does the collection of the colorful live rocks beautifies one’s tank but also provides shelters for the fish and filters the whole tank. However, everything has a good side and the bad one. The addition of live rocks to the tank may have some potential drawbacks, for not every organism living on those marine rocks is important, and even

Introduction: Isopods can be found in many parts of the world. You can find them, clustered together in large numbers, by overturning logs or stone. Most of the species of an isopod are omnivores and feed on decaying plants and sometimes decaying animal matter. Their predators include shrews, a few specialized spider species, and ants. Some of the isopod species can roll themselves tightly into a ball when disturbed (Smigel,2008). The purpose of this lab was to create our own experiment

Introduction: Terrestrial isopods, also known as pill bugs, are comprised of a variety of different species and are known for their adaptability to different environments, which have certain wavelengths of light and sufficient water and nutrients to survive (Danielson et. al. 1976). They are usually found in moist, dark areas because they are extremely vulnerable to dehydration and need a sufficient amount of water to survive (Wagler et. al. 2013). Given these simple characteristics, isopods are

family, class, and an order. For the pill, it belongs the family of armadillidae; a family of ear inhabiting bugs that do not have a water transit system. These bugs must ultimately have the ability to roll up into a ball, completely. Their class is malacostraca which contains about seventy-five percent of all know crustaceans. These bugs can be physically described as minuscule creatures that are about ¾ inches in length and usually dark in color. Since they have no water transit system the mainly inhabit

Isopod Experiment This experiment was conducted on pillbugs (Armadillidiidae) from the class Malacostraca and order Isopods. These bugs were used to preform a Natural Experiment to test their response and attraction to chocolate and/or vanilla flavored chips. During the experiment, the pill-bugs will have the opportunity to choose between the two kinds of chips and the favored flavor will be noted for each bug. Introduction The isopods used for this experiment range in color from gray to brown

Armadillidium vulgare are commonly known as pill-bug. Pill-bugs belong to the kingdom Animalia and are classified as Malacostraca. Belonging to the order of Isopoda, they belong to the Armadillidiidae family, and classified into the genus Armadillidium. A. vulgare are found in soil with a preference to moist environment (Holland 2014). This species see with ommatidia, smell using esthetascs, and touch with tactile setae to sense their environment (Holland 2014). Migita and Moriyama (2004) declare