Sand Piranha

Excirolana chiltoni

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Family: Cirolanidae

Excirolana chiltoni, commonly known as "sand piranha", is a species of isopod in the family Cirolanidae. They are native to warm tropical/subtropical nearshore shallow waters of Pacific coasts, from Japan and Korea to South China in the west and from the Pacific Northwest to Chocó Colombia in the east, being commonly described as a "water-line isopod". E.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 184Canada · 35

Sources and credits

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Sand Piranha

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