Isopods are related to sowbugs or pillbugs.  They are common scavengers but small, easily overlooked, and difficult to identify in the field.

Kapoho Point, Kailua, Oahu

On Fried-egg slug, Blowhole, Oahu, 20 feet

Wakatobi, Indonesia

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