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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Crustaceans (Crustacea) » Malacostracans (Malacostraca) » Peracarida » Isopods (Isopoda) » Woodlice (Oniscidea) » Porcellionidae » Porcellio » Porcellio scaber
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Isopoda 01 - Porcellio scaber
Copyright © 2008 Karl Volkman

Isopoda 01 - Porcellio scaber
Curlew lake, ~10 miles northeast of Republic, Ferry County, Washington, USA
March 5, 2008
Size: .5 inches
An early (there ws still 1 foot of snow outside) isopoda which wandered across the floor of my kitchen.

Photographed near Curlew Lake, 10 miles north of Republic, 150 miles east of hte Cascade Mountains, 20 miles south of the Canadian border.
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Contributed by Karl Volkman on 2 April, 2008 - 1:38am
Last updated 2 October, 2008 - 3:39pm

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… Karl Volkman, 2 October, 2008 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

Hi! This is a Porcellio s
Hi!

This is a Porcellio scaber. The shape of the telson distinguishes from P. dilatatus (another cosmopolitan) while the rough surface shows that it cannot be P. laevis either.
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… Ferenc Vilisics, 2 October, 2008 - 3:18pm login or register to post comments

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