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isopod
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isopod
member of the order Isopoda. Includes water slaters, woodlice. Suborders include Flabellifera (aquatic parasites in marine fish).


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The parasite is non-native, probably introduced to West Coast waters via ballast water from ships, perhaps from an Asian ship, as the isopods have been found in China and Japan, where they may occur naturally.
They also collected around 100 small organisms called isopods that are believed to be new to science.
This size, besides being recommended for Baltic monitoring (HELCOM, 1988), also is that of isopods preferred as food by adult four-horn sculpin (larger than 20 cm) at all three investigated areas, as shown by the present author's unpublished data and previously for the Swedish coast in the Bothnian Sea by Leonardsson et al.
 
 
 
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