Scientific name Asellota Higher classification Isopods Order Isopods | Rank Suborder Subclass Eumalacostraca | |
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Similar Isopods, Crustacean, Valvifera, Anthuroidea, Flabellifera | ||
Aquatic sow bug foraging in a stream isopod asellota asellidae
Asellota is a suborder of isopod crustaceans found in marine and freshwater environments. Roughly one-quarter of all marine isopods belong to this suborder. Members of this suborder are readily distinguished from other isopods by their complex copulatory apparatus. Other characteristics include six-jointed 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.
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Classification
The suborder Asellota comprises these families: Some classifications also include the Microcerberidea within Asellota.
References
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