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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Malacostracans
  5. Amphipods and Isopods
  6. Isopods

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Isopods

Isopoda

Includes
149 native 43 introduced 12 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Woodlice 41 native
  • Valvetails 33 native
  • Asellotes 24 native
  • Predaceous and Parasitic Isopods 22 native
  • Seapills and Allies 22 native
  • Crustacean Isopods 6 native
  • Gribbles and Allies 1 native
  • Cerberuses and Pillslaters

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native isopods All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Western Sea Slater Ligia occidentalis 6,018 observations
  • Sleepy Seaslater Ligia pallasii 2,633 observations
  • Eelgrass Isopod Pentidotea resecata 1,340 observations
  • Florida Fast Woodlouse Atlantoscia floridana 985 observations
  • Western Rockslater Ligidium gracile 812 observations
  • Oak Woodlouse Porcellionides virgatus 605 observations
  • Harford's Isopod Cirolana harfordi 589 observations
  • Blunt-tailed Isopod Idotea urotoma 560 observations
  • Commando Isopod Alloniscus perconvexus 559 observations
  • Eastern Rockslater Ligidium elrodii 310 observations
  • Lirceus richardsonae 292 observations
  • Broad Rockslater Ligidium latum 228 observations
  • Central American Seaslater Ligia baudiniana 185 observations
  • Eastern Saltmarsh Woodlouse Littorophiloscia vittata 171 observations
  • Western Saltmarsh Woodlouse Littorophiloscia richardsonae 166 observations
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