Talk:Giant isopod

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This page really should be merged with Bathynomus giganteus, you know...R. New, 21:11, 10^th October, 2006

Can someone flop the two pictures on this page? The top one is too scary, and is too shocking to see right off the bat. :(:(:(

I don't know which one you were looking at when you posted this; all I know is that any picture of these things is gonna be scary and shocking. I no longer fear Hell, for I have seen the giant isopod.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

~ CZeke 11:15, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS: Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Revert

14:42, July 17, 2005 - Reverted article to last good version after complete deletion by user from 24.191.14.69. (Welcome Farkers!) - Cognoscento

run for your lives

Giant sea woodlouse attacks Internet! Everybody run, run for your lives!!

I was explaining to a group of eager Japanese IRC users that this is what they serve at Taco Bell. -mt

ISOPOD?

And I always thought the Scientific name was the "horseshoe crab" but that's a crab of a different color! (The horseshoe crab must be an isopod but an isopod does not have to be a horshoe crab) Did I get that right?

Pat

Explanation

According to the article the Giant Isopod is "Bathynomus giganteus"

An Isopod is any of numerous crustaceans of the order Isopoda, characterized by a flattened body bearing seven pairs of legs and including the sow bugs and gribbles.

A Sow Bug is also known as a Woodlouse.

The horseshoe crab, "Limulus polyphemus" is an arthropod that is more closely related to spiders than crabs.

Giant Isopod

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Subphylum: Crustacea

Class: Malacostraca

Order: Isopoda

Horseshoe Crab

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Merostomata

Order: Xiphosura

The split occurs in the Subphylum 'layer'

So the Horseshoe crab is apparently NOT an Isopod

The horseshoe crab always has 4 pairs of legs. This giant isopod has 7 pairs of legs. Do all isopods have 7 pairs of legs? Someone please add that info to the isopod article.

David, please don't remove other people's comments from the talk page.

Pillbugs

Those confused about where these beasts belong on the "tree of life" should remember that pillbugs and wood lice are isopods that can be found in many people's back yards and they look very much like tiny land-dwelling versions of the Bathynomus described in this article. --House of Scandal 11:20, 11 February 2007 (UTC) I remember pillbugs, tho they were more popularly called "Roly Poly"'s by everyone I knew as a child, back in California. ...tho I find no mention of that use of the term in the roly poly article!Zaphraud (talk) 22:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I know this sounds dumb but....

Are these edible? Do people actually eat them? What do they taste like?

--Xercessthegreat 18:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xercessthegreat (talk • contribs) 18:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

They live so deep in the sea that they aren't a traditional part of anyone's cuisine as far as I know. These are Crustacea and I imagine if you boiled and ate it it wouldn't be too different than eating a lobster, crab or prawn.--House of Scandal 11:13, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

--You're not the only wondering what these taste like. I'd love to know too - anything that ugly from the sea must taste great! :)

Haha, I've been wondering the exact same thing. I imagine they taste like giant lobster tails, and, more importantly, showing dinner party guests a boiling pot full of those would simply be priceless. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.233.116.179 (talk) 21:55, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Could always try boiling up some woodlice, they are afterall much closer related xD - yeah, doesn't sound so appetising now. (It's funny you know, our ancestors wern't big on eatting fish, but did eat bugs. Now we find bugs gross, even though we scoff shrimps, prawns and their other aquatic cousins) --85.62.18.8 (talk) 23:01, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bathynomus

Cool article, but proper citations are really needed. These Carboniferousesque monsters first captured my interest in the 1970s when there was an article about them in Reader's Digest. I would have called this article Bathynomus and made "giant isopod" redirect to it rather than vice versa, but no big deal. I am more surprised there wasn't already an article of some length about Bathynomus already. --House of Scandal 11:10, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pets

I want a pet one of these. Would these be difficult to obtain? Do the make good pets? They just crawl around and swim, right? —Mgrinshpon 23:13, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are you kidding? That thing will eat your face clean off... ...pure evil, I tell you. Seary6579 22:24, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would love to have one of these as a pet. Pulse416 23:48, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

help?

Lowry, J.K. & Dempsey, K.I. (2005). The giant deep-sea scavenger Bathynomus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. *** Journal - No Details *** (in press): *** Pages - No Details ***

I found this reference here. It seems to be related to the SEAS project, which was spearheaded by James K. Lowry. But I have no idea how I would follow up on this since it doesn't give me a journal and I can't find any other citations to this. ?? ~[[kinda]] 22:21, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cloverfield Movie Monster...

What is the source for the Cloverfield monster reference?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.220.240.21 (talk) 15:11, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]