[sixdimensional]

I've always been fascinated by pill bugs, also known as "Armadillidiidae" [1] they are such cool creatures. I don't know why, but the fact that they are land-dwelling crustaceans was just interesting to me.

I had no idea something like this size and related existed in the sea! Incredible! I wonder now what the evolutionary tree looks like.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae

[sixdimensional]

Order Isopoda [1] on Wikipedia if anyone else is interested.

Edit: Corrected Family -> Order - oops! Thank you pvaldes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopoda

[pvaldes]

Isopoda is an Order. This is in family Cirolanidae, so it has much smaller cousins in each beach.

It seems there is an opportunity here, crouching like a cat, to dedicate one of this new species to Hayao Miyazaki. Bathynomus ohmu seems an pretty convenient name also. Maybe the next.