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Asellotes
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Asellotes

Asellota

Asellota is a suborder of isopod crustaceans found in marine and freshwater environments. Roughly one-quarter of all marine isopods belong to this suborder. Members of this suborder are readily distinguished from other isopods by their complex copulatory apparatus. Other characteristics include six-jointed antennal peduncle, the styliform uropods (a character shared with some other isopod groups), the fusion of pleonites 5, 4 and sometimes 3 to the pleotelson, and absence of the first pleopod in females.

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5 branches of this suborder, most-observed first

Waterslaters and allies

superfamilyAselloidea

Witchers

superfamilyJaniroidea

Gnathostenetroidoidea

superfamilyGnathostenetroidoidea

Stenetrioidea

superfamilyStenetrioidea

Vermectiadidae

familyVermectiadidae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 343772.