THE GIANT ISOPOD

       

THE GIANT ISOPOD

   The giant isopods is the crustaceans, and are closely related to marine crustaceans like shrimp and crabs, and terrestrial crustaceans like the pillbug (Armadillidium vulgare).The giant isopod have two type of color, which is brown and pale-lilac. The peculiar about this creature is they seldom eat but once they are hungry they will rapidly looking food surrounding them and started to eat continuously. They are deep sea creature and they are not as aggressive as other creature. They consider as live in semi-herbination and these creepy creature also have a slow metabolism.

    For this creature they use their antenna to communicate among them because they could not see very well as the others creature ,this is because of they stay in deep of the sea. they have two sets of antennae that they use to experience the environment around them. “The small antennas are used more for chemical sensing and big antennas that are used for physical sensing. This creature can getting bigger even though for the baby isopod. The size is around 7.5 and 14.2 inches in length, but they can get much bigger, One specimen pulled up with an ROV in 2010 was 2.5 feet long.

              This creature are really unique for me in term of the size, their habitat, the way the live is really amazing because they are easy to control .In addition, these species has a the largest eggs of all marine invertebrates ,which is 51 inches in diameter and during the day the female won’t show off because they protecting their egg from any threaten. Once the baby are come out, it will look like a big isopod ,this is because of don’t have a larval stage, they’re roughly 3.4 inches long when they go forth and look exactly like adults. All they’re missing is the last pair of pereopods, or legs, when fully grown, they will have seven pairs of legs   in total. This is the significant of this carnivores creature and I do really impress  with how this animals getting bigger without eat constantly and could find their limited food sources in the deep of the sea.