Name

Oniscidae

woodlouse

Framing

Phylum: Arthropoda

Subphylum: Crustacea

Class: Malacostraca

Subclass: Eumalacostraca

Superorder: Peracarida

Order: Isopoda

Family: Oniscidae

Habitat

Terrestrial, epigean, present in all types of environments

Feeding

Detritivores

Distribution

Cosmopolitan

Conservation status

Most species not assessed

Additional information

Body dorsoventrally flattened and divided into three distinct parts. The first antennae or antennules, minuscule and in some cases vestigial. Pereion is formed by eight segments, the first one fused to the cephalothorax. Each of the seven pereionites bears a pair of pereiopods.