Oniscoidea

Oniscoidea is a superfamily of isopod crustaceans, which includes most of the land-living woodlice. It includes the "common woodlouse", Oniscus asellus, in the namesake family Oniscidae.

Oniscoidea
Oniscus asellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Section: Crinocheta
Superfamily: Oniscoidea
Latreille, 1802
Families

15; see text

Families

Fifteen families are recognised in the superfamily :[1]

  • Bathytropidae Vandel, 1952
  • Berytoniscidae Vandel, 1973
  • Detonidae Budde-Lund, 1906
  • Halophilosciidae Verhoeff, 1908
  • Olibrinidae Vandel, 1973
  • Oniscidae Latreille, 1802
  • Philosciidae Kinahan, 1857
  • Platyarthridae Vandel, 1946
  • Pudeoniscidae Lemos de Castro, 1973
  • Rhyscotidae Budde-Lund, 1908
  • Scyphacidae Dana, 1852
  • Speleoniscidae Vandel, 1948
  • Sphaeroniscidae Vandel, 1964
  • Stenoniscidae Budde-Lund, 1904
  • Tendosphaeridae Verhoeff, 1930
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References

  1. Joel W. Martin & George E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 132 pp.


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