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Woodlice, Pillbugs, and Rock Slaters
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Woodlice, Pillbugs, and Rock Slaters

Oniscidea

A woodlouse (plural woodlice) is a terrestrial isopod crustacean with a rigid, segmented, long exoskeleton and fourteen jointed limbs. Woodlice mostly feed on dead plant material, and they are usually active at night. Woodlice form the suborder Oniscidea within the order Isopoda, with over 5,000 known species.

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5 branches of this suborder, most-observed first

Woodlice and Pillbugs

infraorderHoloverticata

Rock Slaters

infraorderDiplocheta

Hiatoniscus

genusHiatoniscus

Inchanga

genusInchanga

Hora

genusHora

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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 84718.