Cinereous seaslater
The cinereous seaslater is a woodlouse that lives by the sea. It is grey all over and has a bumpy, grainy back. You can find it on the coasts of northern Japan and nearby Russia.
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Fun facts
In the wild it usually lives about a year, but sometimes up to two and a half years.
A mother carries her babies for five months in her first year, then usually dies before her second winter.
A tiny mite sometimes holds on under its body and rides along.
The scientist who first collected it on a long sea voyage later forgot whether it came from Japan, Manila or Chile.
Most asked questions about Cinereous seaslater
?What is a seaslater?
A seaslater is a woodlouse that lives on seashores instead of in gardens.
?Where does the cinereous seaslater live?
On the coasts of Japan, mostly Hokkaido and Tokyo Bay, and on nearby Russian shores.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ligia cinerascens
- Group
- Woodlice
- Family
- Ligiidae
- Classification
- Malacostraca > Isopoda > Ligiidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Ligia cinerascens (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by A. C. Tatarinov. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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