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Isopods
Isopoda
Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives. Isopods live in the sea, in fresh water, or on land. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, and five pairs of branching appendages on the abdomen that are used in respiration. Females brood their young in a pouch under their thorax. Isopods have various feeding methods: some eat dead or decaying plant and...
12 branches of this order, most-observed first
Woodlice, Pillbugs, and Rock Slaters
suborderOniscidea
Valvetails
suborderValvifera
Asellotes
suborderAsellota
Seapills and allies
suborderSphaeromatidea
Predaceous and Parasitic Isopods
suborderCymothoida
Crustacean Isopods
suborderEpicaridea
Phreatoicidea
suborderPhreatoicidea
Gribbles and allies
suborderLimnoriidea
Cerberuses and Pillslaters
suborderMicrocerberidea
Phoratopidea
suborderPhoratopidea
Calabozoidea
suborderCalabozoidea
Tainisopidea
suborderTainisopidea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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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 48147.