Tylidae
"Tylidae" is also a synonym of Micropezidae, a family of flies.
| Tylidae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Isopoda |
| Suborder: | Oniscidea |
| Infraorder: | Tylomorpha Vandel, 1943 [1] |
| Family: | Tylidae Dana, 1852 [2] |
| Genera | |
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Helleria Ebner, 1868
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Tylidae is a family of woodlice. It contains approximately 27 species, all but one in the genus Tylos, the other being Helleria brevicornis. Together with the family Ligiidae, Tylidae appears to have diverged early from the remaining woodlouse families.[3]
References
- ↑ "Tylomorpha". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved October 6, 2010.
- ↑ "Tylidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved October 6, 2010.
- ↑ Alice Michel-Salzat & Didier Bouchon (2000). "Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial LSU rRNA in oniscids". Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences - Series III - Sciences de la Vie 323 (9): 827–837. doi:10.1016/S0764-4469(00)01221-X. PMID 11072627.
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