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 Synocheta > Family Trichoniscidae > Subfamily Trichoniscinae > Genus Trichoniscus

Trichoniscus pusillus Brandt, 1833

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

TrichoniscusBrandt, 1833accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Danish: rød dværgbænkebider sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Dutch: paars drieoogje sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 English: common pygmy woodlouse

Literature

original description

Brandt, J. F. (1833). Conspectus monographiae crustaceorum oniscodorum Latreillii. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 6: 171-193, pl. 4.

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. Trichoniscus pusillus Brandt, 1833. 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:263752

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Trichoniscus pusillus Brandt, 1833. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/bf206a8d-0d6f-4b5b-9e3f-53b993b98e1e

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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

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:263752
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:219303

Last modified

2016-10-07 by Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall & by Stefano Taiti

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