isopoda in English

noun
1
an order of crustaceans that includes the terrestrial wood lice and several marine and freshwater parasites. They have a flattened segmented body with seven similar pairs of legs.
Neither Amphipoda nor Isopoda is known from the early Paleozoic when the Crustacea are generally represented in the fossil record by the valve-bearing Ostracoda.

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2. Amphipoda is another group of Crustacea Isopoda that has adapted to living on land

3. This type of parthenogenesis is known as apomictic or Ameiotic parthenogenesis and occurs in Trichoniscus (Isopoda), Daphnia pulex (Crustacea), Campelona rufum (Mollusca), weevils and long-horned grasshoppers.

4. The Amphipoda constitute an order of crustaceans closely related to the Isopoda (together in the superorder Peracarida) and more distantly related to the Decapoda (together in the subclass Eumalacostraca)

5. ‘Neither Amphipoda nor Isopoda is known from the early Paleozoic when the Crustacea are generally represented in the fossil record by the valve-bearing Ostracoda.’ More example sentences ‘Because of their small size, Amphipoda are able to survive in caves.’

6. ‘Neither Amphipoda nor Isopoda is known from the early Paleozoic when the Crustacea are generally represented in the fossil record by the valve-bearing Ostracoda.’ More example sentences ‘Because of their small size, Amphipoda are able to survive in caves.’

7. Within the bounds of the common general morphology of the malacostracan stomach, an isopod type (Amphipoda, Cumacea, Tanaidacea, Isopoda) and a decapod type (Mysidacea, Euphausiacea, Decapoda) are distinguishable. These two types are connected by an intermediate type, which reveals characteristics of both (Lophogastrida).

8. As nouns the difference between Amphipod and isopod is that Amphipod is a member of taxonomic order Amphipoda of small, shrimp-like crustaceans while isopod is any of very many crustaceans, of the order isopoda , that have a flattened body, and no carapace.

9. You could describe scuds (members of the order Amphipoda) as “shrimplike sowbugs.” Like sowbugs (in the order Isopoda), they have two pairs of antennae; they lack a carapace (a covering “back” like a crayfish has); their eyes are not on stalks; and they have several body segments with legs, gills, and other appendages.

10. A large number of associated organisms have been found in nest ofMyrmecia; the following orders and numbers of species, in brackets, are represented:Anura (1); Araneae (9); Acarina (1); Blattodea (3); Coleoptera (20+); Collembola (3); Diptera (1); Hemiptera (2); Hymenoptera (14); Isoptera (2); Lepidoptera (4); Neuroptera (1); Orthoptera (2); Thysanura (4+); Isopoda (13) and Nematoda (1).