Can You Identify This Aquatic Crustacean

[Taxon]

 

[Mark Melton]

Freshwater isopod?

 

[Tom Butler]

I would have said rolly polly (pillbug). Mark's probably correct. " Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda".

 

[Taxon]

Freshwater isopod?

I assume you are referring to an Aquatic Sowbug. However, I believe it to be a Water Penny Beetle larva, probably of family Psephenidae, subfamily Ebriinae.

 

[Matt B]

I don’t know but that is ancient and successful body plan.

 

[Mark Melton]

I'll still stick by my original ID of freshwater isopod or aquatic sowbug. If you look at the head it appears to have an antennae coming out, also the head is showing which it wouldn't be with a water penny and at the extreme rear end of the abdomen it appears to have a cerci coming out. Also down at the 8th and 9th abdominal segment it tapers in. All these are indicative of a freshwater isopod.

Freshwater Isopod Maybe ? - Porcellio

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[Taxon]

I would have said rolly polly (pillbug).

 

[Tom Butler]

These are fun. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You too Mark.

 

[Taxon]

I'll still stick by my original ID of freshwater isopod or aquatic sowbug. If you look at the head it appears to have an antennae coming out, also the head is showing which it wouldn't be with a water penny and at the extreme rear end of the abdomen it appears to have a cerci coming out. Also down at the 8th and 9th abdominal segment it tapers in. All these are indicative of a freshwater isopod.

Great job, Mark.

 

[SculpinSwinger]

Thanks for this dialogue. I know little, but love to learn.