Huge "Darth Vader" Isopod found in Viet Nam

[OrionN]

Just as the title:
https://blog.pensoft.net/2025/01/14...iant-sea-bug-species-named-after-darth-vader/
Not really newly discovered since the Vietnamese have been eating them for years.

 

[ColorMeGone]

Do they taste like chicken? Their real ugly for sure.

 

[AlyciaMarie Verified Admin]

 

[OrionN]

Better than lobster.!!!!!
They will get fish (or isopod) to extinction.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Imagine how good it would be at keeping a sand bed stirred up. lol

 

[OriginalUserName]

Imagine how good it would be at keeping a sand bed stirred up. lol

Until you wake up like this.

 

[AlyciaMarie Verified Admin]

Until you wake up like this.

I did not need this image in my head...LOL

 

[OrionN]

Imagin of these isopods latch on to our abdominal wall and start to eat away.

 

[SeaDweller]

 

[Paleozoic_reefer]

How long to they live at our atmospheric pressure? I would have assumed they wouldn’t last long enough to make it to the market…

 

[Reginald Reefer III]

Imagine how good it would be at keeping a sand bed stirred up. lol

Someone needs to send Polo Reef a couple lol

 

[JayM]

What’s the minimum tank size? Asking for a friend.

 

[irischan]

These creatures taste just no difference from ordinary crabs, together with ways to cook and ways to eat. By the way, there is fried anemone as well.

 

[Reginald Reefer III]

These creatures taste just no difference from ordinary crabs, together with ways to cook and ways to eat. By the way, there is fried anemone as well.

 

[elysics]

These creatures taste just no difference from ordinary crabs, together with ways to cook and ways to eat. By the way, there is fried anemone as well.

Fried anemone? What's even left after you fry them, they are waterbags

 

[shcrimps]

These creatures taste just no difference from ordinary crabs, together with ways to cook and ways to eat. By the way, there is fried anemone as well.

FRIED WHAT????

 

[vetteguy53081]

Ive seen pics and the thought is just scary

 

[OrionN]

I just think of crack open those legs and shells and get to the juicy sweet meat.

I wonder if they have the same eatables meat as a lobster of the same weight?

 

[irischan]

Fried anemone? What's even left after you fry them, they are waterbags

As well as jelly fish. Stir fried with vegetables, herbs and spice. As you mentioned, they should not be over-cooked to dry off. Cooking temperature and time were controlled to keep them juicy. Sometimes they are eaten freshly. Yes, they have toxin in body so fisherman picks those less toxic species.

 

[irischan]

I just think of crack open those legs and shells and get to the juicy sweet meat.

I wonder if they have the same eatables meat as a lobster of the same weight?

Similar but different taste and texture. Like shrimp to crab to lobster. Similar but different.