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The hobby has expanded quickly in recent years, owed largely to Cubaris sp. "Rubber Ducky". This undescribed Cubaris species garnered significant online attention, due to its face resembling that of a rubber ducky. A number of isopod keepers credit this species for getting them into the hobby. [7]
The standard appearance of an isopod species is often referred to as 'Wild Type'. Some isopod morphs are characterized by polygenic traits, such as 'Orange Vigor' (Armadillidium vulgare) and 'Pink Rubber Ducky' (Cubaris sp. "Rubber Ducky"), the result of selectively breeding isopods that best match the desired appearance. These genes can vary ...
Isopoda is an order of crustaceans.Members of this group are called isopods and include both aquatic species and terrestrial species such as woodlice.All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, and five pairs of branching appendages on the abdomen that are used in respiration.
A rubber duck or a rubber duckie is a toy shaped like a duck, that is usually yellow with a flat base. It may be made of rubber or rubber-like material such as vinyl plastic . [ 1 ] Rubber ducks were invented in the late 1800s when it became possible to more easily shape rubber, [ 2 ] and are believed to improve developmental skills in children ...
"Rubber Duckie", a song by the Sesame Street character Ernie "Rubber Ducky", a song by Quincy Jones on the Dollar$ soundtrack; Rubber Duck, a character in the 1976 novelty single "Convoy" by C. W. McCall and related media; Rubberduck, a DC Comics character; Rubber Duck (sculpture), a floating sculpture by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman
Friendly Floatees are plastic bath toys (including rubber ducks) marketed by The First Years and made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements. Ebbesmeyer studied the movements of a consignment of 28,800 Friendly Floatees—yellow ducks, red beavers, blue turtles, and ...
Cubaris murina, commonly known as the little sea isopod or little sea roly poly, is a species of woodlouse in the family Armadillidae. It is found in North America, Africa, South America, Australasia , tropical Asia, and the Pacific Ocean .
The family Munnopsidae is a family of asellote isopoda which is one of the most speciose and frequently collected of the known isopod families. As currently structured it consists of nine subfamilies, 44 genera and about 364 species.