Pillbug

Styloniscus mauritiensis

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Family: Styloniscidae

Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of some other woodlice families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals. This ability gives woodlice in this family their common names of pill bugs or rolly pollies.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

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