The pylons also provide refuges for various fish, crustacea, nudibranchs and other marine invertebrates.
Heinrich Balss (3 June 1886 – 17 September 1957) was a German zoologist, specialising in Crustacea, especially decapods.
While this is most widely known in mantises, similarly modified legs can be found in some crustaceans (e.g., mantis shrimp), and various insect families, such as Mantispidae, Belostomatidae, Nepidae, and Naucoridae (all members of these groups have raptorial forelegs).
Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis was identified in the hepatopancreas of the woodlouse Porcellio scaber (Crustacea: Isopoda).