Genus Idotea

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Internet References · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Crustacea (Crustaceans)

Class Malacostraca (Malacostracans)

Superorder Peracarida (Marsupial Crustaceans)

Order Isopoda (Isopods)

No Taxon (Scutocoxifera)

Suborder Valvifera (Valve-tailed Isopods)

Family Idoteidae

Genus Idotea

Explanation of Names

Idotea Fabricius 1798

Numbers

26 spp. total

Identification

Body dorsoventrally depressed; pereopods subsimilar and ambulatory; seven free pereonites; less than three complete pleonites (two complete + one incomplete) (Brusca et al.)

Internet References

genus page(1)

Works Cited

1.	Boyko et al. (Eds) (2008-) World marine, freshwater and terrestrial isopod crustaceans database

Contributed by Sam McNally on 5 October, 2013 - 1:21pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 23 September, 2021 - 9:46pm

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