Podon intermedius Lilljeborg 1853

Body transparent with a yellow tint.

Neritic species.

Female: Brood chamber (shell) oval in shape and directed backwards. Body stout, wide. Head with a sucker. Antennules small, their base carries 4 aesthetacs. Swimming antennae biramous; carry 7 setae on exopodite and 6 on endopodite. Leg 1 is longer and wider than the rest, carries 2 distal setae on exopodite. Legs 2-4 carry 1, 1, and 2 setae on the exopodite. The endopodite of leg 1 carries 8 setae; the other legs less. Abdominal claws are large, covered with setae. A small tube-shaped caudal stem is present; it carries 2 two-segmented, plumose caudal setae.
Male: Is distinguished by a very large head; the presence of copulatory organs and the structure of leg 1, which is shorter than in female. The abdominal claws are even larger than in female.

Length of female 0.8-1.0 mm, male - 0.9 mm.

Filter-feeding herbivore, diet consists primarily of diatoms

Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley); Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway)

upper and glacial epipelagic