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by sixdimensional 2100 days ago
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

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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.