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Tylidae

Tylidae is a family of woodlice. It contains approximately 27 species, all but one in the genus Tylos, the other being Helleria brevicornis. Together with the family Ligiidae, Tylidae appears to have diverged early from the remaining woodlouse families.

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Tylidae
Tylos punctatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Infraorder: Tylomorpha
Vandel, 1943 2
Family: Tylidae
Dana, 1852 1
Genera

Helleria Ebner, 1868
Tylos Latreille, 1826

Tylidae is a family of woodlice. It contains approximately 27 species, all but one in the genus Tylos, the other being Helleria brevicornis. Together with the family Ligiidae, Tylidae appears to have diverged early from the remaining woodlouse families.3

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References

  1. "Tylidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved October 6, 2010.
  2. "Tylomorpha". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved October 6, 2010.
  3. Alice Michel-Salzat & Didier Bouchon (2000). "Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial LSU rRNA in oniscids". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série III. 323 (9): 827–837. doi:10.1016/S0764-4469(00)01221-X. PMID 11072627.