Wood-Boring Isopod

Sphaeroma terebrans

• Group: Other

The wood boring isopod tunnels into mangrove roots and stems across warm coasts worldwide, riddling submerged wood with its burrows. It grinds out galleries in shallow water, and in doing so reshapes mangrove timber from the inside.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 257081.