Trichoniscidae

Trichoniscidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Section: Synocheta
Superfamily: Trichoniscoidea
Sars, 1899
Family: Trichoniscidae
G. O. Sars, 1899 [1]
Genera

See text

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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