Asellota

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

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 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.[3][4]

Classification

The suborder Asellota comprises these 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
  • Joeropsis Koehler, 1885[6]
  • 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

  1. ↑ "Asellota". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. ↑ J. K. Lowry (October 2, 1999). "Asellota". Crustacea, the Higher Taxa. Crustacea.net.
  3. 1 2 Richard Brusca, Vania R. Coelho and Stefano Taiti. "Suborder Asellota". Guide to the Coastal Marine Isopods of California. Retrieved January 28, 2009.
  4. ↑ George D. F. (Buz) Wilson. "Definition of the Asellota". University of Sydney. Retrieved January 28, 2009.
  5. 1 2 J. W. Martin & G. E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 132 pp.
  6. ↑ http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118369 WoRMS

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