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It's definitely some sort of Flabellifera, but I'm not sure it's Dynamenella... most Dynamenella species have some sort of sculpturing on their telson. It's hard to tell for sure from the photo, but these look pretty smooth and rounded. Perhaps Exosphaeroma? I'd have to see it close-up to be more definitive. Invertboy might be able to able to provide more insight.
A good resource for basic shapes of isopod families and genera (if you don't have a Light and Smith handy) is California Isopod Plates.
Wicked! Thanks for the link to those plates, very informative. Man, it's beginning to become difficult to manage the burgeoning library of keys, field guides, journals, scholarly papers, books, plates, handouts, suggested links, and random bits of useful paper. I guess it's part of being a naturalist is having a overstuffed book shelf.
Possibly E. inornata, but those plates don't have illustrations of all CA isopods. I'd need a critter, a scope, and a Light and Smith manual to get it down to species. :)
I was sitting in the dentist chair waiting to get drilled when I put that ID up...with no time to comment and not a very good look.
Looking at it more closely, I am more inclined to call it Gnorimosphaeroma, but even to get to a confident genus level ID you need to look at the uropods, which are under the animal and seen with a scope. G. oregnonense and G. insulare are pretty common in SF Bay under rocks in the upper intertidal.
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Kestrel's,
Observation http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/51096 led me to this possible ID.
It's definitely some sort of Flabellifera, but I'm not sure it's Dynamenella... most Dynamenella species have some sort of sculpturing on their telson. It's hard to tell for sure from the photo, but these look pretty smooth and rounded. Perhaps Exosphaeroma? I'd have to see it close-up to be more definitive. Invertboy might be able to able to provide more insight.
A good resource for basic shapes of isopod families and genera (if you don't have a Light and Smith handy) is California Isopod Plates.
Ha, and as I'm typing Chris IDs it. :)
Wicked! Thanks for the link to those plates, very informative. Man, it's beginning to become difficult to manage the burgeoning library of keys, field guides, journals, scholarly papers, books, plates, handouts, suggested links, and random bits of useful paper. I guess it's part of being a naturalist is having a overstuffed book shelf.
E. inornata? The telson is round and smooth.
Possibly E. inornata, but those plates don't have illustrations of all CA isopods. I'd need a critter, a scope, and a Light and Smith manual to get it down to species. :)
I was sitting in the dentist chair waiting to get drilled when I put that ID up...with no time to comment and not a very good look.
Looking at it more closely, I am more inclined to call it Gnorimosphaeroma, but even to get to a confident genus level ID you need to look at the uropods, which are under the animal and seen with a scope. G. oregnonense and G. insulare are pretty common in SF Bay under rocks in the upper intertidal.
In the upper intertidal is where I found it. Two new words for today...uropods and telson. Nice.
I'll give you a 3rd...I meant to say you look at the pleopods, which are found anterior to the uropods. :)
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