Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Eelgrass Isopod, Idotea resecata, occurs from Prince William Sound, Alaska, to Mazatlan, Mexico, on Macrocystis or eelgrass (Zostera sp.), which it eats. The body is brown when living on Macrocystis and green when living on eelgrass.
Photo Category: Estuaries - Fauna - Marine
Photo Location: North Puget Sound, Anacortes, Washington
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Added On | 18th October 2015 |
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