BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

ISOPODA (woodlice, waterlice and sea slaters)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs
Family ASELLIDAE (waterlice or water slaters) 1 8      
Suborder ASELLOTA (a suborder of woodlice or sea slaters) 1        
Family JANIRIDAE (a family of sea slaters) 1   10   1
Suborder FLABELLIFERA (gribbles and speckled sea lice) 3 6 41 12  
Suborder ONISCOIDEA (woodlice) 11 33 31   5
Suborder VALVIFERA (a suborder of woodlice or sea slaters) 2 31      

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Bate, C.S. & Westwood, J.O., 1863 A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea
Hopkin, S., 1991 A Key to the Woodlice of Britain & Ireland
Naylor, E., 1972 British Marine Isopods
Norman, A.M., 1904 (Marine species) British Isopoda of the Families Aegidae, Cirolanidae, Idoteidae,
and Arcturidae
Oliver, P.G. & Meechan, C.J., 1993 (terrestrial species) Woodlice: Keys and Notes for the Identification of the Species

Marine

Plankton
Apstein, C. & Brandt, K.A.H. (eds), 1927 (larvae) Crustacea

Terrestrial species

Savory, T.H., 1955 The World of Small Animals

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 4 general literature references to ISOPODA (woodlice, waterlice and sea slaters)

ISOPODA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
CRUSTACEA
(crustaceans)
MALACOSTRACA
(crabs, lobsters, shrimps, prawns, woodlice etc.)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 72 feeding and other relationships of ISOPODA (woodlice, waterlice and sea slaters)

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