Trichoniscidae are a family of
isopod
Isopoda is an Order (biology), order of crustaceans. Members of this group are called isopods and include both Aquatic animal, aquatic species and Terrestrial animal, terrestrial species such as woodlice. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons ...
s (woodlice), including the most abundant British woodlouse, ''
Trichoniscus pusillus''. Most species of woodlice that have returned to an aquatic or amphibian way of life belong to this family. Several species from the following genera live in water and on land: ''Titanethes'', ''Cyphonetes'', ''Alpioniscus'', ''Scotoniscus'', ''Bureschia'', ''Brackenridgia'', ''Mexiconiscus'', ''Trichoniscoides'', ''Cretoniscellus'', ''Balearonethes'' and ''Cyphoniscellus''.
Genera
The family Trichoniscidae contains the following genera, including those previously treated as the separate family Buddelundiellidae:
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Woodlice
Isopod families
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