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Charleston Bump Expedition Marine Organisms. Isopod.Isopods are an Order of Crustaceans closely related to pillbugs.Also members of the superorder Peracarida, they have brood pouches at the bases of their walking legs in which fertilized eggs develop into miniature adults. (Image credit: Charleston Bump Expedition 2003. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration; Dr. George Sedberry, South Carolina DNR, Principal Investigator | Jerry Mclelland)