#Merulanellas

[pixelarthropods]

if you drew some isopods i would literally cry ;w;

Here's some of cute isopods! Also please don't cry when you see them. XD

This ones usually grow up to 20 mm. Their names are: Dairy Cow, Ember Bee, Thai Spiky, Blister Tricolor, Porcellio Werneri and Rubber Ducky! I hope you guys like it. ^^

Also I just realized Thai Spiky looks like Eevee kinda. Now I can't unsee that lol

[onenicebugperday]

Captive bred isopods via The Isopod Barracks on Facebook and Instagram

1. Merulanella sp. “Red Ember Bee” 2. Armadillidium werneri “Orange” 3. Armadillidium maculatum “Zebra” 4. Cubaris sp. “Cappuccino” 5. Cubaris sp. “Soil” 6. Cubaris sp. “Green Spot” 7-8. Unidentified species “Shiny Gator”

Photos shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

[porcellionides]

should i change my username...

[shadowthorne]

I got Merulanella sp tricolors for Christmas! They are precious and beautiful and I love them. The seller was a super nice guy too. We talked a bit for a few days and he said he was going to send me a little something extra and that something ended up being six white rubber duckies!

[couch-house]

second pass at a lil gang of isopod kids (8-12ish) that all hang out and play soccer together :) (refs and early sketch under the cut)

Fizzle is named for the common "Ember Bee" name for Merulanella species. Auguste is named after a type of clown-- klugii are also called "clown isopods." Sketch is a zebra isopod: black and white. Chucky is named for one of the common names for terrestrial isopods: chucky pigs. Clementine is named for the morph's orange color. Lydia is named after Lydia Deetz (and later Alec Baldwin) based on a common name of Porcellio expansis: the Beetlejuice isopod :)

[venusforfran]

My dream isopods

(species below the cut)

Armadillidium Maculatum Zebra. “Zebra”

Armadillidium Gestroi “Yellow spotted isopods”

Armadillidium vulgare "Gem"

Armadillidium nasatum "Nosy pill"

Armadillidium klugii "Clown Isopods"

Porcellio Pruinosis (Orange/Powder Orange/White Out/Oreo Crumble/Red Koi/Powder Blue/Orange cream)

Porcellio scaber "Rosy Woodlouse"

Porcellio ornatus "Yellow Dot"

Porcellio scaber "Lava"

Porcellio scaber "Dalmatian"

Oniscus asellus "Mardi Gras"

Armadillidium sp. Cookies and Cream

cubaris sp. white ducky

Porcellio laevis "Dairy Cow"

Porcellio expansus

Cubaris murina "Little Sea"

Cubaris murina "Papaya Isopods"

Cubaris sp. "Bumblebee"

Cubaris sp. "Blue Lemon"

Cubaris sp. "Jupiter"

Nesodillo archangeli "Shiro Utsuri"

Armadillidium vulgare "Orange Vigor"

Armadillidium vulgare "Magic Potion"

Cubaris sp. "Rubber Ducky"

Cubaris sp. "Panda King"

Porcellio werneri “Greek Shield Isopod”

Porcellio scaber "Scarlet Isopods"

Porcellio bolivari " Skeleton"

Cubaris sp. "Ember Bees"

Dwarf Cubaris sp. "White Shark Isopods"

Cubaris sp. "cappuccino

Cubaris spec. “Caramel”

cubaris murina

Cubaris sp. “Thai”

Merulanella sp 'Starsky'

Porcellio Ornatus 'Tangerine Dream'

Cubaris sp. "Red Panda"

Porcellio scaber "Orange Dalmatian"

Cubaris sp. “Caramel cream”

Cubaris sp. “Latte”

Cubaris sp. “Rusty”

Cubaris sp. “Shrubs dream”

Cubaris sp. “Snow bee”

White ducky

Greater clown isopod

[pillowspace]

um ok so u remember ur slug guys?? the c. nigricans??

uhm so I think I found the isopod equivalent and js thought I would share

(Merulanella 'yellow bees')

Oh wow, those actually are really alike. Isopod equivalent fr. That's so cool!!

[yellow-computer-mouse]

isopods be upon thou

THAT'S A SCARLET!! AND a zebra i think? idk that one AND THEN A LEMON BLUE!!! AND THEN i think clown?

YAY ISOPODS!!!!!!! :DDDDDD

how've you been isopod?

edit!!! @logs-pods identified them all! :)

[ID: Text reading "1-Merulanella sp. 'Scarlett' 2-Armadillidium gestroi 3-Cubaris sp. 'Lemon blue' 4-Merulanella sp. 'Ember bee'" Each is on a different line. End ID]

[crevicedwelling]

How do you handle ventilation in your tubs? Also, entirely different subject, what are some great isopods that don't belong to Armadilidium/Porcellio/Cubaris/Merulena?

I poke holes in plastic.

honestly, those are some of the least interesting isopod genera, if not only because most of the cool ones in the hobby labeled as Cubaris and Merulanella aren’t actually members of either genera. I’m basically going to list all of the ones I can think of in one minute because this question is sort of like asking “name a cool mammal that isn’t a goat, a hamster, a dog, or a pig” which is that the answer is All The Rest Of Them, Of Course

Armadillo, Venezillo (Armadillidae)

can hardly go wrong with any of the weird Australian ones, mostly armadillids; plus all the spiny ones like Laureola

Trachelipus (Trachelipodidae)

Cylisticus, Parcylisticus (Cylisticidae)

entire family Delatorreidae

many scleropactids are cool, too: Adinda, Scleropactes

[lsopod]

READ:

If you have a favorite morph/variant of isopod please specify in the tags + vote for whichever genus your favorite falls under please!

[robotzebra]

For day 26: Honorary. Here is a scarlet Isopod. I chose the scarlet isopod (Merulanella sp. "Scarlet") since it has a colouration that reminds me of some amphibians

[onenicebugperday]

Tricolor isopods, Merulanella sp., Armadillidae

Captive bred by The Isopod Barracks on Facebook // Instagram

Photos shared with permission; please do not remove credit or re-post!

[limbus-limousine]

Ik you're mostly a Sinclair poster (a very good one at that) but do you have any animal associations for Dante? Or any of the other sinners for that matter

YES YES ACTUALLY!!! SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS ASK...

I have a list of animal associations for project moon characters in general... I'm still working on it but I eventually want to get to background characters too like the optional ruina receptions etc. But currently these are my thoughts for limbus...

Dante: Merulanella blister/tricolor isopod (a perfect match if you ask me... very expensive collectionist morph too). This might change once we know more about them though!

For Verg and Charon I still have to think some up... But Charon is giving mustelid I must say

Yi Sang: Hooded crow + cicada

Dongbaek: Caramel crow!! (This would be a regular American crow, caramel is a mutation that's still being researched which gives them a creamy brown coloration)

Samjo: Great auk (extinct diver bird/penguin) + Royal tern + otter

Dongrang: African forest buffalo + blue roan shorthorn + Oxpecker + cattle egret

Faust: Rock ptarmigan + wooly aphid (still want to look for more...)

Don Quixote: Quagga + Bearded vulture + Monitor lizard

Ryoshu: Horned owl + Dragontail butterfly + Moth (still need to look into species) + ratsnake/black mamba (reference to Hell Screen)

Meursault: Honestly very hard choice... Mostly for personality reasons, I've been thinking of a Nurse shark + MAYBE badger (noctural + def. want an omnivore in there) + Clam or something

Hong Lu: Mantis shrimp + lemur + Sinosauropteryx (chinese compsognathid with conserved pigments of a ringed tail!)

Heathcliff: Aardwolf + Bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant (want to look for more too...)

Ishmael: Orca (only predator of whales) + kutchicetus (cetacean transitional fossil) + lobster

Ahab: Sperm whale + Narwhal + polar bear

Queequeg: Leopard seal

Rodya: Manul + Cozumel raccoon

Sonya: Leucistic amur leopard + Mediterranean fruit fly

Sinclair (more details...): Eurasian sparrowhawk + indeterminate canine traits. I imagine him as a bilateral gynandromorph (half male/female mutation), inspired by the real recorded specimens of lazuli buntings and canaries.

Demian: Malayan blue coral snake + Boelen's python + Luzon bleeding-heart dove. Pondering on lamb motif + maybe some traces of corvid

Kromer: Mountain lion + Hercules beetle grub + red headed centipede + some mantid perhaps (looking into it)

Outis: Przewalski's horse, or maybe a Mustang (debating, I'm not as informed about equines !) + Harris Hawk + Black headed python

Gregor: Painted trilobite cockroach (infestation) + Ensign wasp (main/original body) + House centipede

[zooophagous]

do you have any dream isopods?* *(reasonably obtainable ones because god id like a giant deep sea boi too)

Most of my favorite species I already keep (officinalis and ornatus are luckily pretty simple)

But I really, really want some spiky species (probably not the Thailand sp. Just because I hear they're difficult to keep alive) and some Merulanella sp. "Ember bee."

Ember bees might be my favorite isopod of all time but I'm not paying that much money for them so I have to wait until they get popular and over saturated and become cheap lol

[mossy-petrichor]

Merulanella sp. has some super spicy morphs as well as Armadillidium klugii and they're not even aquatic.... https://www.iso ( remove this ) pod.com/product-page/merulanella-sp-scarlett https://www.iso ( remove this ) pod.com/product-page/armadillidium-klugii-debrovnik

I've also seen Merulanella sp with zero black but you're gonna have to take my word on that because they probably only exist in one random nerd's isopod box in a closet, so, you know. - that guy

THEYRE SO SILLY GOOFY!!!

Little guys!!! So guy shaped!!

[geosesarma]

Sinodillo sp. "Vietnam" adult and young. These are one of my favorite looking isopods honestly, very simple yet pleasant.

This species is most commonly traded as "Merulanella" sp. Vietnam but they key out to an undescribed species of Sinodillo, this is NOT at all Merulanella, nor are any of the pods commonly traded under that name, just a result of the "Cubaris effect" where zero care is taken to attempt to identify any south or southeast asian Armadillid that gets imported to north american/european/asian hobbyists, just call it a Cubaris or Merulanella and give it a stupid name so it sells that'll be $300 for 6