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 Porcellionidae > Genus Porcellio

Porcellio scaber Latreille, 1804

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Porcellio*	Latreille, 1804	accepted genus name

Children

Porcellio scaber scaber Latreille, 1804

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

English: common rough woodlouse; garden woodlouse; rough sowbug; scabby sow bug; slater 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: Kellerassel; Körnerassel; Raue Kellerassel; Raue Körnerassel; Rauhe Kellerassel sources: 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.

Japanese: ワラジムシ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: källargråsugga

Literature

original description	Latreille, P. A. (1804). Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Volume 7: 1-413, pls. 58-66. F. Dufart, Paris.
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.
additional source	Taiti, S.; Wynne, J. J. (2015). The terrestrial Isopoda (Crustacea, Oniscidea) of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), with descriptions of two new species. ZooKeys. 515: 27-49.

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. Porcellio scaber Latreille, 1804. 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:262440

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Porcellio scaber Latreille, 1804. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/36461bff-9b94-4051-858c-506f79f45f53