Is there an ocean insect?

Answer 1

i call lobsters ocean insects
they scrounge the bottom floor for food - have antennae and beady little eyes .........

Answer 2

Yes, but very few. There are small water striders,
which are about the commonest and most widely
distributed. However, like water striders generally
they are only on the water surface,not actually in
the water. Also there are a couple of others of which the larvae actually live under water, a midge
and a caddis fly.

The arthropods that dominate in the ocean are
primarily the crustaceans, a different subphylum
from insects. Two suggestions that have been
made as to why insects are almost absent from the
ocean are: 1. the dissolved salts in the water are
toxic to insects; 2. there is too much competition
from the marine crustaceans. Perhaps, also, the
adaptations insects have made to land habitats,
where they are dominant, are such as to prevent
them from surviving in salt water. (This is not
necessarily a different answer from the other two.)

Answer 3

No, Crustaceans is not an Insect...

Water striders is the only insects that are truly marine. They live on the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

Answer 4

Lobsters, crabs, shrimp, sea louse and most all the other crustaceans COULD be considered insects. Crabs are related to spiders, they have an exoskeleton and eight legs. Same with lobsters, here in Maine, we call lobsters "bugs" or "sea cockroaches" Really. So yes, there IS an ocean insect!

Answer 5

No, if you want to know the possible hypothesis of why there are no ocean insects you can go

http://ww2.unk.edu/acad/biology/hoback/marineinsects/home.html

Answer 6

nope...there could be, but I don't think we've discovered yet