APHOTOMARINE

An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.

A-P-H-O-T-O Wildlife Stock Image Library
Jaera albifrons group - A group of janirid isopods (Isopoda images)
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Specimens featured here are of species that fall within the Jaera albifrons group, the group includes the species Jaera Jaera albifrons, Jaera Jaera forsmani, Jaera Jaera ischiosetosa and Jaera Jaera praehirsuta. None of the specimens below have been identified to species level by comparing pereopods 1-4 or pereopods 6-7.

Janirid isopod
Jaera albifrons group
- dorsal view female 1

Janirid isopod
Jaera albifrons group
- dorsal view female 2

Janirid isopod
Jaera albifrons group
- group of female specimens 1

Janirid isopod
Jaera albifrons group
- group of female specimens 2

Janirid isopod
Jaera albifrons group
- male praeoperculum 1

Janirid isopod
Jaera albifrons group
- male pereopod 2 -1

Specimens above found on shaking Egg or Knotted Wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum, into a bucket, at Wacker Quay, Wacker Lake, Anthony, Torpoint, Cornwall. 12.06.16.

Janirid isopod
Jaera albifrons group
- ventral view of female with
young in brood pouch 1

Janirid isopod
Jaera albifrons group
- young in brood pouch 1

Janirid isopod
Jaera albifrons group
- juvenile from brood pouch 1

Janirid isopod
Jaera albifrons group
- eggs 1

Janirid isopod
Jaera albifrons group
- eggs 2

Specimens above found found under a stone on the uppershore at Loe Beach, Feock, Cornwall. 16.02.17.

Janirid isopod
Jaera albifrons group
- dorsal view 1

Janirid isopod
Jaera albifrons group
- dorsal view 2

Janirid isopod
Jaera albifrons group
- dorsal view 3

Janirid isopod
Jaera albifrons group
- with 0.1 division mm rule 1

Species found in rock crevice on the middleshore at Great Hogus, Marazion, Cornwall. 20.05.14.

PLEASE NOTE. JAERA CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED TO SPECIES LEVEL WITHOUT THE USE OF A MICROSCOPE, IDEALLY A COMPOUND MICROSCOPE.

Jaera albifrons group forsmani ischiosetosa praehirsuta janiridae Marine Animal Resembling Woodlouse Isopoda Images
The main objective of this website is in furthering environmental awareness and education through the medium of photography. To increase awareness and access to the wildlife of the region and help
people find and identify it. Sometimes the difference between species is obvious but many species can only be determined by observing microscopic characteristics that are specific to any one species.