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      Other Isopods For Sale

      These are the isopods whose genus is too small for a page of its own: one to three lines each, from around ten genera. Most are uncommon in the UK and some are rarely offered anywhere, and care varies more here than on any other page, so read each listing before you buy. The genus names below are the ones the lines are sold under, and for several of them no scientific identification has been published.

      Unless a listing says otherwise, they are bred or grown on here in the UK and posted Monday to Thursday with the live arrival guarantee and a 20% overcount. Sold-out lines can take a while to come back, so use the Notify me when available button on the listing.

      What's here

      • Spherillo: Castle Black, Dream and Hainan Black, tropical rollers. The Castle Black guide covers the first of them.
      • Helleria: the Giant Cannonball (Helleria brevicornis), a big, rounded roller with a care guide of its own.
      • Nesodillo: the Shiro Utsuri, a mottled black-and-white isopod from Taiwan and one of the easiest animals on the page; see the Shiro Utsuri care guide.
      • Caribodillo: the Salmon (Caribodillo martinicensis), long sold as a Cubaris and described in 2025 as a new genus and species from Martinique; the Salmon care guide has the detail.
      • Reductoniscus: the Ankylosaur (Reductoniscus tuberculatus), a tiny armoured isopod of about 5 mm, described from Borneo.
      • And more: the Starsky (Dryadillo sp.), Sinodillo 'China', the Hallaniyat Island Periscyphis, a desert isopod that wants a dry, warm tub with one damp corner, and the Shiny Gator, whose genus nobody has settled.

      For the rarer tropical isopods more broadly, the Cubaris page is worth browsing alongside this one, and new arrivals gathers the newest lines each month. New to isopods? The main isopods for sale page has the hardier starting points.

      12 products
      Ankylosaur Isopods
      Ankylosaur Isopods (Reductoniscus tuberculatus)
      from £55.00
      Castle Black isopod on a piece of rotting wood, its glossy blue-black bands edged in white behind a pearl-white front and amber head
      Castle Black Isopods (Spherillo sp.)
      from £80.00
      Helleria brevicornis isopods
      Giant Cannonball Isopods (Helleria brevicornis)
      from £27.50
      Sold Out
      Hallaniyat Island 'Oman' Isopod
      Hallaniyat Island 'Oman' Isopods (Periscyphis sp)
      from £55.00
      Sold Out
      Oniscus Casellus Orange Isopods
      Oniscus asellus 'Orange' Isopods
      from £30.00
      Sale
      Salmon isopods (Caribodillo martinicensis) on rotting wood, salmon-orange with grey heads
      Salmon Isopods (Caribodillo martinicensis)
      £50.00 from £25.00 Save £25.00
      Isopoda sp. Shiny gator Isopods
      Shiny Gator Isopods (Isopoda sp.)
      from £90.00
      Shiro Utsuri Isopod
      Shiro Utsuri Isopods (Nesodillo sp.)
      from £12.50
      sinodillo china isopods
      Sinodillo sp. 'China' Isopods
      from £10.00
      A Spherillo Dream isopod from above on leaf litter, silvery grey shell edged with warm orange and flecked with pale yellow.
      Spherillo sp. "Dream" Isopods
      from £80.00
      A Hainan Black isopod walking side-on along rust-brown bark, pale grey-blue with a finely granular shell.
      Spherillo sp. "Hainan Black" Isopods
      from £80.00
      A Starsky isopod (Dryadillo sp.) close up, its near-black shell flecked all over with warm gold speckling and a faint pearl sheen across the mid-body plates.
      Starsky Isopods (Dryadillo sp.)
      from £80.00

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      An Ankylosaur isopod on a dark surface, its pale grey shell covered in rows of white bumps
      Ankylosaur Isopod Care Guide (Reductoniscus tuberculatus)
      A Shiny Gator isopod on dark bark, its lilac-grey shell ridged with rows of raised nubs and orange at the front of the head
      Shiny Gator Isopod Care Guide (Isopoda sp.)
      Five pastel-pink Cherry Blossom isopods on the underside of a pale bark ledge
      Pink Isopods: Species, Morphs and How to Keep Them