Isopod

Eurydice paxilli

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A small swimming isopod that hunts and scavenges across sandy and muddy bottoms. Members of its genus are aggressive carnivores, darting after a range of invertebrates rather than waiting for food to arrive.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Isopoda › Cirolanidae › Eurydice

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 293257.