Biology:Trichoniscidae
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Short description: Family of woodlice
| Trichoniscidae | |
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| Trichoniscus pusillus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Superorder: | Peracarida |
| Order: | Isopoda |
| Suborder: | Oniscidea |
| Infraorder: | Holoverticata |
| Family: | Trichoniscidae G. O. Sars, 1899 [1] |
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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
- ↑ "Trichoniscidae Sars, 1899". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=331645. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
- ↑ Ivo Karaman (2003). "Macedonethes stankoi n. sp., a rhithral oniscidean isopod (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Trichoniscidae) from Macedonia". Organisms Diversity & Evolution 3 (8): 1–15. doi:10.1078/1439-6092-00054. http://www.senckenberg.de/odes/03-08.pdf.
- ↑ Helmut Schmalfuss (2003). "World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) – revised and updated version". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A 654: 341 pp. http://www.oniscidea-catalog.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/Cat_terr_isop.pdf.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q2691514 entry
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