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Welcome to Suborder Oniscidea!

Oniscidea - Liber Deserti

Your current chain: State of matter Life > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Oniscidea

(From Wikipedia) A woodlouse (plural woodlice) is any crustacean belonging to the suborder Oniscidea within the order Isopoda.

FACT: Despite being named after the small parasitic insect known as a louse, woodlice are neither parasitic nor insects!

Currently discovered: 1/2 Infraorders

Infraorders

  1. Holoverticata - Woodlice and Pillbugs