Isopod

Sphaeroma annandalei

• Group: Other

A small pill shaped isopod of the shallow shoreline, this species bores into the living prop roots of mangroves. Its relatives are general feeders, and gut studies of similar borers show they eat algae rather than the wood itself.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Isopoda › Sphaeromatidae › Sphaeroma

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 220728.