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1 Species ID Suggestions

Gaia80
Gaia80 11 years ago
Woodlouse
Oniscidea Woodlouse


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8 Comments

Gaia80
Gaia80 11 years ago

They are close relatives to sandhoppers, but most of these species live on land as far as I have read

ChunXingWong
ChunXingWong 11 years ago

Seems like a Sandhopper

mokauea
mokauea 11 years ago

WOW mahalo for the ID

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 11 years ago

Moved to Arthropods :-)

Gaia80
Gaia80 11 years ago

Actually I did some more reading just now and found out that it is closer related to these animals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean, my info is outdated...sry!

Gaia80
Gaia80 11 years ago

It is a woodlouse, with over 3000 species world wide I have no idea what species this one is. This group might be more than 300 million years old and are the modern insects ancestors ;)

brainpunk
brainpunk 11 years ago

Very cool insect!

DespinaTsafetopoulou
DespinaTsafetopoulou 11 years ago

intersesting spoting...I wish I could help!

mokauea
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mokauea

Spotted on Sep 17, 2012
Submitted on Oct 9, 2012

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