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Eophreatoicus, a freshwater isopod from Australia

Eophreatoicus, a freshwater isopod from Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Crustacea
Class:Malacostraca
Order:Isopoda
Latreille, 1817
Suborders


Anthuridea
Asellota
Calabozoida
Epicaridea
Flabellifera
Microcerberidea
Oniscidea
Phreatoicidea
Valvifera
Isopods are one of the most diverse orders of crustaceans, with many species living in all environments, but are most common in shallow marine waters. Unlike most crustaceans, isopods are successful on land (suborder Oniscidea, woodlice, which also includes sea slaters), although their greatest diversity remains in the deep sea (suborder Asellota). There are also several parasitic species within the genus Cymothoa, commonly known as "tongue-biters" for their habit of nibbling off fishes' tongues and attaching themselves to the floor of the host's mouth. The isopods are an ancient group with fossils known from the Carboniferous (suborder Phreatoicidea, family Paleophreatoicidae) that only differ slightly from modern southern hemisphere freshwater phreatoicideans.

Appearance

Isopods have three main body parts; the head, thorax, and the abdomen. They have one prominent pair of antennae which are used to search and taste and smell food and have a second pair which are not seen. and seven pairs of legs. Isopods have seven separate appendages on the thorax and paired appendages at the end of the abdomen called uropods. Isopods vary in colour from dark gray to white, with and without pattern.

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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829

Subphyla and Classes
  • Subphylum Trilobitomorpha
  • Trilobita - trilobites (extinct)
  • Subphylum Chelicerata

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crustaceans (Crustacea) are a large group of arthropods, comprising approximately 52,000 described species [1], and are usually treated as a subphylum [2].
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Malacostraca
Latreille, 1802

Subclasses

Eumalacostraca
Hoplocarida
Phyllocarida
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The Malacostraca (Greek: "soft shell") are the largest subgroup of crustaceans and include most of the animals that non-experts
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Pierre André Latreille (November 20, 1762 - February 6, 1833) was a French entomologist. His works describing insects assigned many of the insect taxa still in use today.
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order (Latin: ordo, plural ordines) is a rank between class and family (termed a taxon at that rank). The superorder is a rank between class and order. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Code which applies.
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Epicaridea
Latreille, 1831

Families
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Epicaridea is a suborder of isopods. They are ectoparasites that inhabit other crustaceans, namely ostracods, copepods, cirripedes, and malacostracans. The suborder is found globally.
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Flabellifera

Families

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Flabellifera is a suborder of isopod crustaceans.

Families

  • Aegidae
  • Ancinidae
  • Anuropidae
  • Argathonidae
  • Bathynataliidae
  • Bathynomidae
  • Cirolanidae
  • Corallanidae

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Oniscidea
Latreille, 1802

Infraorders and Families
  • Infraorder Tylomorpha
  • Tylidae
  • Infraorder Ligiamorpha
  • Superfamily Trichoniscoidea

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Valvifera
Latreille, 1802

Families

Antarcturidae
Arcturidae
Arcturididae
Austrarcturellidae
Chaetiliidae
Holidoteidae
Holognathidae
Idoteidae
Pseudidotheidae
Rectarcturidae
Xenarcturidae

Members of the suborder
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crustaceans (Crustacea) are a large group of arthropods, comprising approximately 52,000 described species [1], and are usually treated as a subphylum [2].
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Oniscidea
Latreille, 1802

Infraorders and Families
  • Infraorder Tylomorpha
  • Tylidae
  • Infraorder Ligiamorpha
  • Superfamily Trichoniscoidea

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L. oceanica

Binomial name
Ligia oceanica
(Linnaeus, 1767)

Ligia oceanica, the sea slater or common sea slater, is a marine crustacean which is closely related to woodlice.
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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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C. exigua

Binomial name
Cymothoa exigua
(Schiødte & Meinert, 1884)

Cymothoa exigua is a parasitic crustacean of the family Cymothoidae.
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The Carboniferous is a major division of the geologic timescale that extends from the end of the Devonian period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Ma (million years ago), to the beginning of the Permian period, about 299.0 ± 0.8 Ma (ICS 2004).
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Bathynomus
A. Milne-Edwards, 1879

Species

Bathynomus affinis
Bathynomus decemspinosus
Bathynomus doederleinii
Bathynomus giganteus
Bathynomus immanis
Bathynomus kapala

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Oniscidea
Latreille, 1802

Infraorders and Families
  • Infraorder Tylomorpha
  • Tylidae
  • Infraorder Ligiamorpha
  • Superfamily Trichoniscoidea

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