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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Crustaceans (Crustacea) » Malacostracans (Malacostraca) » Marsupial Crustaceans (Peracarida) » Isopods (Isopoda) » Scutocoxifera » Woodlice (Oniscidea) » Holoverticata » Orthogonopoda » Crinocheta » Sowbugs (Oniscidae) » Oniscus » European Sowbug (Oniscus asellus)
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Isopod - Oniscus asellus
Copyright © 2006 Mardon Erbland

Isopod - Oniscus asellus
Logy Bay, Northeast Avalon, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
April 24, 2006
Size: 14 mm
I found this bug under a rock that I had overturned. I moved him to a white sheet of paper for his photo session. After we were done, I let him go back 'home'. The photos were taken in natural sunlight at about 3:15 PM local time.

From photographs, the species of this specimen was identified as "Oniscus asellus" by David Larson of the "Terrestrial Arthropods of Newfoundland and Labrador" project (http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/english/nfld.htm) which is a subset of the Biological Survey of Canada.

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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 24 April, 2006 - 7:15pm
Last updated 12 May, 2006 - 4:27pm

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