Isopods and Rockfishes Where to find at

Shedd: Rockfishes
can be found
Isopods can grow to 16 inches
scattered
long.
throughout the
They live on the ocean floor,
Oceans gallery.
between 550 and 7,020 feet deep,
They can also be
and scavenge food that falls from
found in the Abbott
above. There are as many as 100 species
Oceanarium, in the
These giant isopods are related to of rockfishes, several of which can
open-topped
pill bugs, which you can find in be found at Shedd.
estuary habitat
your backyard! They eat plankton, crustaceans
near the sea lions.
Isopods evolved more than 160 and fishes.
million years ago. Some species of rockfishes are
Where to find at
Shedd: The giant thought to live up to 200 years.
isopods are on the Many rockfishes have venomous
same side of the spines that can cause pain and
Oceans gallery as itching.
the wolffish, large Many rockfishes have home
crabs and octopus. territories, and theyll return time
and time again if they are
displaced.