Oniscoidea

Oniscoidea
Oniscus asellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Isopoda
Suborder:	Oniscidea
Section:	Crinocheta
Superfamily:	Oniscoidea Latreille, 1802
Families
15; see text

Oniscoidea is a superfamily of isopod crustaceans, which includes most of the land-living woodlice. It includes the "common woodlouse", Oniscus asellus , in the namesake family Oniscidae.

Families

Fifteen families are recognised in the superfamily : ^[1]

• Bathytropidae Vandel, 1952
• Berytoniscidae Vandel, 1973
• Detonidae Budde-Lund, 1906
• Halophilosciidae Verhoeff, 1908
• Olibrinidae Vandel, 1973
• Oniscidae Latreille, 1802
• Philosciidae Kinahan, 1857
• Platyarthridae Vandel, 1946
• Pudeoniscidae Lemos de Castro, 1973
• Rhyscotidae Budde-Lund, 1908
• Scyphacidae Dana, 1852
• Speleoniscidae Vandel, 1948
• Sphaeroniscidae Vandel, 1964
• Stenoniscidae Budde-Lund, 1904
• Tendosphaeridae Verhoeff, 1930

References

1. Joel W. Martin & George E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 132 pp. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-12. Retrieved 2009-12-16.

External links

• Media related to Oniscidea at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Oniscoidea at Wikispecies