These giant isopods can grow up to 1.64 feet.
A giant isopod is any of the almost 20 species of large isopods in the genus. They are abundant in the cold, deep waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. Giant isopods were first described by the French zoologist Alphonse Milne-Edwards in 1879, with contributions from his colleague Alexander Agassiz.
Bathynomus kensleyi, previously known from the South China Sea as well as the south-east Swain Reefs, Coral Sea, was primarily differentiated by the elongate and upturned pleotelson spines, but that character is now shown to also occur in mature Bathynomus jamesi. Two specimens from the Gulf of Mexico were compared to species of Bathynomus from the western North Atlantic. Sequence data showed that one of two samples was not B.
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