- Porcellionidae
image_caption = "Porcellio scaber "
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
subphylum =Crustacea
classis =Malacostraca
ordo =Isopoda
subordo =Oniscidea
familia = Porcellionidae
familia_authority = Brandt & Ratzeburg,1831
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision =
*"Caeroplastes "
*"Congocellio "
*"Dorypoditius "
*"Inchanga "
*"Leptotrichus "
*"Lucasius "
*"Mahehia "
*"Mexicostylus "
*"Mica"
*"Pondo (genus) "
*"Porcellio "
*"Porcellionides "
*"Proporcellio "
*"Soteriscus "
*"Thermocellio "
*"Tropicocellio "
*"Tura"
*"Uramba "Porcellionidae is a terrestrial family of the order
Isopoda . The species classified here cannot roll into a ball, as opposed to the species of familyArmadillidiidae , which can.This family contains 530 species in 17 genera, found on every continent except
Antarctica .Identification
The
ventral plate of the thoracicexoskeleton flare out slightly over the legs. This "flare" is called the "epimeron". Theuropod s, antenna-like structures at the back of the specimen, are flattened out and spearlike, and extend beyond the last exoskeletal plate.
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