Trichoniscidae

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Trichoniscidae
Trichoniscus pusillus.jpg
Trichoniscus pusillus
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Trichoniscoidea

Sars, 1899
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Trichoniscidae

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 amphibian way of life 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.[2]

Genera

The family Trichoniscidae contains the following genera, including those previously treated as the separate family Buddelundiellidae:[3]

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.

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