sea slater
Ligia oceanica
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- sea slater
Compound: sea + slater sea: marine habitat, slater: isopod crustacean resembling a woodlouse ↳ slater in this sense is of uncertain origin, apparently unrelated to slater (one who lays roof slates)
Sea slater, a large marine isopod about 3 cm long. Nocturnal, sheltering by day and foraging at night on rocky shores above the high-water line in the north-east Atlantic.