Styloniscus

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Styloniscus
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S. longistylis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Styloniscidae
Genus: Styloniscus
Dana, 1853 [1]
Type species
Styloniscus longistylis [2] [3]
Dana, 1853
Synonyms [4] [3]
  • AntarctoniscusPaulian de Félice, 1940
  • MicroniscusDollfus, 1890 non Müller, 1871
  • OligoniscusDollfus, 1890
  • PatagoniscusVerhoeff, 1939

Styloniscus is a genus of woodlice in the family Styloniscidae. It contains the following species as of 2010: [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Dana, James D. (1853). Crustaea. Part II. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 under the command of Charles Wilkens U.S.N. 13. Philadelphia: C. Sherman. pp. 736–738.
  2. ↑ Jackson, Harold Gordon (1941). "Check-List of the Terrestrial and Fresh-Water Isopoda of Oceania". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 99 (8): 7.
  3. 1 2 Schmidt, Christian; Leistikow, Andreas (2004). "Catalogue of genera of the terrestrial Isopoda (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea)" (PDF). Steenstrupia. 28 (1): 9, 52, 61, 68, 89. ISSN   0375-2909.
  4. 1 2 Marilyn Schotte (2009). M. Schotte; C. B. Boyko; N. L. Bruce; G. C. B. Poore; S. Taiti; G. D. F. Wilson (eds.). "Styloniscus Dana, 1852". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved April 12, 2010.


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