Asellota
| Asellota | |
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| Asellus aquaticus, Asellidae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Subclass: | Eumalacostraca |
| Order: | Isopoda |
| Suborder: | Asellota Latreille, 1802 [1] |
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Asellota is a suborder of isopod crustaceans found in marine and freshwater environments.[2] Roughly one quarter of all marine isopods belong to this suborder.[3] Members of this suborder are readily distinguished from other isopods by their complex copulatory apparatus. Other characteristics include 6-joint antennal peduncle, the styliform uropods (a character shared with some other isopod groups), the fusion of pleonites 5, 4 and sometimes 3 to the pleotelson and absence of the first pleopod in females.[3][4]
[edit] Classification
The suborder Asellota comprises the following families:[5] Some classifications also include the Microcerberidea within Asellota.[5]
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Janiroidea Sars, 1897
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Aselloidea Latreille, 1802
Stenetrioidea Hansen, 1905
Gnathostenetroidoidea Kussakin, 1967
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[edit] References
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Wikispecies has information related to: Asellota |
- ^ "Asellota". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=92650.
- ^ J. K. Lowry (October 2, 1999). "Asellota". Crustacea, the Higher Taxa. Crustacea.net. http://www.crustacea.net/crustace/www/asellota.htm.
- ^ a b Richard Brusca, Vania R. Coelho and Stefano Taiti. "Suborder Asellota". Guide to the Coastal Marine Isopods of California. http://tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=4173. Retrieved January 28, 2009.
- ^ George D. F. (Buz) Wilson. "Definition of the Asellota". University of Sydney. http://www.personal.usyd.edu.au/~buz/Asellota/asell-def.html. Retrieved January 28, 2009.
- ^ a b J. W. Martin & G. E. Davis (2001) (PDF). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 132 pp. http://atiniui.nhm.org/pdfs/3839/3839.pdf.
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