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Photo#482576
orange county marine isopod #1 - Exosphaeroma inornata

orange county marine isopod #1 - Exosphaeroma inornata
Crystal Cove, Orange County, California, USA
December 30, 2010
Size: ~2mm
I'm sure some of you might remember this image I posted from midmay:

I believe this may be the same species, this one obviously a less vivid red than my first. I found two of these on a piece of kelp which was almost entirely covered in a gray mass which I think may be kelp fly eggs. Both indidividuals were relatively sedentary.

Images of this individual: tag all
orange county marine isopod #1 - Exosphaeroma inornata orange county marine isopod #1 - Exosphaeroma inornata

Moved

Moved
Moved from Isopods.

Several more individuals of t
Several more individuals of this species just posted. A great deal of variation in size and color was observed.

Some relatives illustrated here
http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/crustacea/index.htm

Comparison
Compare with this specimen: 375225.

 
Looks convincing
Dunno if it's the same as the one here but Arlo's looks identical to an isopod I've shot on the same location:

Which reminds me that I've got a bunch of isopod pics that I still need to post to BugGuide. I'll get around to uploading them this afternoon.

Moved
Moved from Malacostracans.

Gray mass...
...is more likely the ectoproct (bryozoan) that covers large areas of the kelp surface:

http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/Ectoprocta/Bryozoan.htm

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