Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Oniscidea > Parvorder Orthogonopoda > Section Crinocheta > Family Philosciidae > Genus Philoscia

Philoscia muscorum (Scopoli, 1763)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted
Name Status: alternate representation

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Philoscia*	Latreille, 1804	accepted genus name
*Philoscie*	Latreille, 1804	synonym

Species group names

*Oniscus sylvestris*	Fabricius, 1793	subjective synonym

Children

Philoscia muscorum muscorum (Scopoli, 1763)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: lanbenet bænkebider sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: mospissebed sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: common striped woodlouse; fast woodlouse sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Gefleckte Moosassel; Gestreifte Moosassel; Moosassel

Literature

basis of record	Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25].
additional source	Schmalfuss, H. (2003). World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie). 654: 1-341.

Genbank

Citation

Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Philoscia muscorum (Scopoli, 1763). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:258268

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Philoscia muscorum (Scopoli, 1763). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/8c4acc38-b5c4-4a8b-b597-ff1c5ee3b83b