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Asellota
Asellus aquaticus, Asellidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Subclass: Eumalacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Asellota
Latreille, 1802 [1]
Superfamilies

Aselloidea
Stenetrioidea
Janiroidea
Gnathostenetroidoidea
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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]

Classification

The suborder Asellota comprises the following families:[5] Some classifications also include the Microcerberidea within Asellota.[5]

Janiroidea Sars, 1897

  • Acanthaspidiidae Menzies, 1962
  • Dendrotiidae Vanhöffen, 1914
  • Desmosomatidae Sars, 1899
  • Echinothambematidae Menzies, 1956
  • Haplomunnidae Wilson, 1976
  • Haploniscidae Hansen, 1916
  • Ischnomesidae Hansen, 1916
  • Janirellidae Menzies, 1956
  • Janiridae Sars, 1897
  • Joeropsididae Nordenstam, 1933
  • Katianiridae Svavarsson, 1987
  • Macrostylidae Hansen, 1916
  • Mesosignidae Schultz, 1969
  • Microparasellidae Karaman, 1933
  • Mictosomatidae Wolff, 1965
  • Munnidae Sars, 1897
  • Munnopsididae Sars, 1869
  • Nannoniscidae Hansen, 1916
  • Paramunnidae Vanhöffen, 1914
  • Pleurocopidae Fresi & Schiecke, 1972
  • Santiidae Wilson, 1987
  • Thambematidae Stebbing, 1913

Aselloidea Latreille, 1802

  • Asellidae Latreille, 1802
  • Stenasellidae Dudich, 1924

Stenetrioidea Hansen, 1905

  • Pseudojaniridae Wilson, 1986
  • Stenetriidae Hansen, 1905

Gnathostenetroidoidea Kussakin, 1967

  • Gnathostenetroididae Kussakin, 1967
  • Protojaniridae Fresi, Idato & Scipione, 1980
  • Vermectiadidae Just & Poore, 1992

References

Wikispecies has information related to: Asellota
  1. ^ "Asellota". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=92650. 
  2. ^ J. K. Lowry (October 2, 1999). "Asellota". Crustacea, the Higher Taxa. Crustacea.net. http://www.crustacea.net/crustace/www/asellota.htm. 
  3. ^ 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. 
  4. ^ 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. 
  5. ^ 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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