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Family Cylisticidae

Unknown Sowbug/Isopod - Cylisticus convexus

Isopoda - Unknown, 1a - Cylisticus convexus

Cylisticus convexus - Curly Woodlouse - Cylisticus convexus

Isopoda - Family?-1 (1 of 2) - Cylisticus convexus

Isopoda > Cylisticidae > Cylisticus - Cylisticus convexus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Crustacea (Crustaceans)

Class Malacostraca (Malacostracans)

Superorder Peracarida (Marsupial Crustaceans)

Order Isopoda (Isopods)

No Taxon (Scutocoxifera)

Suborder Oniscidea (Woodlice)

Infraorder Holoverticata

No Taxon (Orthogonopoda)

No Taxon (Crinocheta)

Family Cylisticidae

Numbers

A single (adventive) species in our area(1), 67 species in 4 genera worldwide(2)

Range

native to Eurasia, adventive in the New World(1)

Works Cited

1.	Checklist of the terrestrial isopods of the New World (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) Leistikow A., Wägele J.W. 1999. Rev. Bras. Zool. 16: 1‒72.

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

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 10 January, 2007 - 9:19pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 2 April, 2011 - 6:00pm

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