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Rhyscotus

Rhyscotus is a genus of armadillo woodlice, land crustacean isopods of the family Rhyscotidae. It was first described in 1885 by Gustav Budde-Lund.

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Rhyscotus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Rhyscotidae
Genus: Rhyscotus
Budde-Lund, 1885

Rhyscotus is a genus of armadillo woodlice, land crustacean isopods of the family Rhyscotidae.1 It was first described in 1885 by Gustav Budde-Lund.

The genus comprises the following species:1

  • Rhyscotus albidemaculatus Budde-Lund, 1908
  • Rhyscotus australis Lewis, 1998
  • Rhyscotus bicolor Barnard, 1924
  • Rhyscotus colimensis Mulaik, 1960
  • Rhyscotus globiceps Budde-Lund, 1908
  • Rhyscotus jacksoni Arcangeli, 1931
  • Rhyscotus nasutus Budde-Lund, 1908
  • Rhyscotus rotundatus Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1978
  • Rhyscotus somaliensis Ferrara, 1972
  • Rhyscotus sphaerocephalus Budde-Lund, 1893
  • Rhyscotus texensis (Richardson, 1905)
  • Rhyscotus turgifrons Budde-Lund, 1885
References

References

  1. Rhyscotus Budde-Lund, 1885. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 January 2019.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Schmalfuss, H. 2003. World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A Nr. 654: 341 pp.