deniz tespih böceği
Ligia oceanica
#nm_0585📍 Turkey
- Language
- Turkish
- Transliteration
- deniz tespih bocegi
- IPA
- /deˈniz tesˈpih bœdʒeˈi/
Compound: deniz + tespih + böceği deniz: sea, tespih: prayer beads, böceği: its bug/insect, for the beaded segmented body ↳ tespih from Ottoman Turkish tesbih, from Arabic تَسْبِيح tasbīḥ (praise, glorification) ↳ böceği from böcek (bug, insect), of Turkic origin
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.