A new species of deep-sea giant isopod, which was named Bathynomus raksasa, has been described by researchers from NUS and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). This is the first time that the genus Bathynomus has been collected in Indonesian waters and it is also one of the largest known to science.
The description of the new isopod species was led by Dr Conni Sidabalok from the Research Center for Biology of LIPI and Ms Helen Wong from the Tropical Marine Science Institute and St John's Island National Marine Laboratory.
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