Burrowing Australian Isopod

Sphaeroma quoianum

• Group: Other

This little isopod bores into almost anything soft enough to tunnel, from marsh peat and friable sandstone to wood, concrete, and even styrofoam floats. It lives in shallow intertidal and subtidal water and is a notorious stowaway on pier pilings far from its native range.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 257076.