Pseudarmadillo

Pseudarmadillo is a genus of woodlice from the Greater Antilles. All extant species live in Cuba, with one species also extending to the Bahamas:[2]

Pseudarmadillo
Temporal range: Burdigalian? - Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Delatorreiidae
Genus: Pseudarmadillo
Saussure, 1857[1]
Type species
Pseudarmadillo carinulatus
Saussure, 1857

Two extinct species are also known from possibly Burdigalian age Dominican amber found on Hispaniola:[2]

The genus is often considered a member of the Pseudarmadillidae, of which it is the only genus. It has also been placed, together with Cuzcodinella oryx in the family Delatorreiidae, Delatorreia being a synonym of Pseudarmadillo.[2]

References

  1. de Saussure, H. (1857). "Diagnoses de quelques Crustacès nouveaux des Antilles et du Mexique". Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée. Ser. 2. 9: 308.
  2. Helmut Schmalfuss (2003). "World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) — revised and updated version" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A. 654: 341 pp.
  3. Schmalfuss, H. (1984). "Two new species of the terrestrial isopod genus Pseudarmadillo from Dominican amber (Amber-Collection Stuttgart: Crustacea, Isopoda, Pseudarmadillidae)". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie). 102: 1–14.


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