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

Porcellionidae Brandt in Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1831

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

Porcelliones Brandt in Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1831 synonym

Children

Acaeroplastes Verhoeff, 1918
Agabiformius Verhoeff, 1908
Atlantotrichus Vandel, 1958
Caeroplastes Verhoeff, 1918
Leptotrichus Budde-Lund, 1885
Lucasius Kinahan, 1859
Mica Budde-Lund, 1908
Porcellio Latreille, 1804
Porcellionides Miers, 1877
Proporcellio Verhoeff, 1907
Soteriscus Vandel, 1956

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 English: woodlice sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Japanese: ワラジムシ科

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.

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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. Porcellionidae Brandt in Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1831. 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:248310

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Porcellionidae Brandt in Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1831. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/ac8df251-bee2-4e4e-8623-25ef1495cfa7

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


not marine, not brackish, not fresh, terrestrial

Importance

no data

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GUID

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Last modified

2024-06-12 by Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall & by Christopher B. Boyko

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