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Armadillidae

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thumb|Armadillo officinalis, Spain thumb|Barrowdillo pseudopyrgoniscus, Barrow Island, Australia thumb|Cubaris insularis, Java, Indonesia

Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassMalacostraca
  4. OrderIsopoda
  5. FamilyArmadillidae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
893
With media
71
Family
Armadillidae
Collections
AMNH, NCSM, CAS, UF, PSUC
Recorded in
Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Australia, Mexico, Peru, France Collectivity: Polynesia, Madagascar

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Encyclopedic overview

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thumb|Armadillo officinalis, Spain thumb|Barrowdillo pseudopyrgoniscus, Barrow Island, Australia thumb|Cubaris insularis, Java, Indonesia

Armadillidae is a family of woodlice (Oniscidea; terrestrial crustaceans), comprising around 80 genera and 700 species. It is the largest family of Oniscidea, and one of the most species-rich families of the entire Isopoda. Most of the armadillidae taxa are not monophyletic. Armadillids generally have a strongly convex body shape, with some rather shallowly convex. Like members of the woodlice family Armadillidiidae, armadillids are capable of enrolling into a sphere (conglobation), and are commonly known as pill bugs. Some species, however, have secondarily lost their conglobation ability. For example, a species exists in which the males lack the inner face of the coxal plates and are therefore unable to conglobate. Armadillids differ from the Armadillidiidae in that the antennae are fully enclosed within the sphere.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Armadillidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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