Tylidae is a
family
Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
of
woodlice
Woodlice are terrestrial isopods in the suborder Oniscidea. Their name is derived from being often found in old wood, and from louse, a parasitic insect, although woodlice are neither parasitic nor insects.
Woodlice evolved from marine isopods ...
. It contains approximately 27 species, all but one in the genus ''
Tylos'', the other being ''
Helleria brevicornis''. Together with the family
Ligiidae, Tylidae appears to have diverged early from the remaining woodlouse families.
References
Woodlice
Isopod families
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