Trichoniscidae

Trichoniscidae
Trichoniscus pusillus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Infraorder: Holoverticata
Family: Trichoniscidae
G. O. Sars, 1899 
Genera

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Diversity
c. 90 genera

Trichoniscidae are a family of isopods (woodlice), including the most abundant British woodlouse, Trichoniscus pusillus. Most species of woodlice that have returned to an aquatic or amphibious lifestyle belong to this family. Several species from the following genera live in water and on land: Titanethes, Cyphonetes, Alpioniscus, Scotoniscus, Bureschia, Brackenridgia, Mexiconiscus, Trichoniscoides, Cretoniscellus, Balearonethes and Cyphoniscellus.

Genera

The family Trichoniscidae contains the following genera, including those previously treated as the separate family Buddelundiellidae:

References

  1. ↑ "Trichoniscidae Sars, 1899". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  2. ↑ Ivo Karaman (2003). "Macedonethes stankoi n. sp., a rhithral oniscidean isopod (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Trichoniscidae) from Macedonia" (PDF). Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 3 (8): 1–15. doi:10.1078/1439-6092-00054.
  3. ↑ Helmut Schmalfuss (2003). "World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) – revised and updated version" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A. 654: 341 pp.
  4. ↑ Sánchez-García, A.; Peñalver, E.; Delclos, X.; Engel, M. S. (August 6, 2021). "Terrestrial Isopods from Spanish Amber (Crustacea: Oniscidea): Insights into the Cretaceous Soil Biota". American Museum Novitates (3974).