Isopoda are crustaceans that include woodlice. They live in the sea, in fresh water, or on land. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, and five pairs of branching appendages on the abdomen that are used in respiration. Females brood their young in a a sort of marsupium under their thorax.
Order Isopoda (Ancient Greek ísos = "equal") + pod = foot
Suborders 11, families 10.200 described species (5000 on land environment)
Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Arthropoda, Subphylum Crustacea, Class Malacostraca
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