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Little Sea Pill Woodlouse
Cubaris murina
Cubaris murina, commonly known as the little sea isopod or little sea roly poly, is a species of woodlouse in the family Armidillae (genus Cubaris). It is found in North America, Africa, South America, Australasia, tropical Asia, and the Pacific Ocean.
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Description
Cubaris murina may reach a length of 11 millimeters and a width of 5 millimeters. It is capable of rolling into a ball when disturbed; this ability is known as conglobation.
Range & habitat
C. murina is known to occur in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Saint Thomas Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Oahu, in North America; Brazil and Cayenne, French Guiana in South America; the Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean, and Sumatra, Indonesia, in Southeast Asia. It is possible that the species was introduced to the Americas from Asia.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 296056.