Styloniscus

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Styloniscus
Crustacea (Maididea, Pl. 48) (7929793366) (Fig 8a).jpg
S. longistylis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
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]

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. Vol. 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.