Several specimens of the giant deep-sea isopod genus Bathynomus were collected by a deep-sea lander at a depth of 898 m near Hainan Island in the northern South China Sea.After careful examination,this material and the specimens collected from the Gulf of Aden,north-western Indian Ocean,...
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9. Sponge habitats provide important ecosystem services for the functioning of deep-sea benthic habitat worldwide10, and due to their enormous seawater processing capacity, they influence the hydrodynamics
The bathynomus yucatanensis is a species of giant isopod, crustaceans that scavenge for food at the bottom of the ocean. Their segmented, fourteen-legged bodies resemble their much smaller relative, the woodlouse. The foot-long size of the giant isopods has been attributed todeep-...