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Woodlice


Armadillidium vulgare
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Crustacean
Class:Malacostraca
Order:Isopoda
Suborder:Oniscidea
Infraorders and Families
Not necessarily a complete list
Infraorders:
Ligiamorpha
Tylomorpha
Families:
Dubioniscidae
Irmaosidae
Pseudarmadillidae
Scleropactidae
Armadillidium vulgare A woodlouse, also known as a pill bug (genus Armadillidium only), armadillo bug, sow bug, slater, ball bug, or roley-poley, is a terrestrial crustacean with a rigid, segmented, calcareous exoskeleton and fourteen jointed limbs. They form the suborder Oniscidea within the order Isopoda, with over 3000 known species.

Woodlice need moisture and so are usually found in damp, dark places, such as under rocks and logs. They are usually nocturnal and are detritivore, feeding only on dead plant matter.

Philoscia muscorum In the United Kingdom there are 37 native or naturalized species ranging in colour and in size (3 to 30 mm) of which only five are common: Oniscus asellus (the common shiny woodlouse), Porcellio scaber (the common rough woodlouse), Philoscia muscorum (the common striped woodlouse), Trichoniscus pusillus (the common pygmy woodlouse) and Armadillidium vulgare (the common pill bug).

Some woodlice are able to roll into a ball-like form when threatened, leaving only their armoured back exposed. It is this ability which explains many of the woodlouse's common names.

A female woodlouse will keep fertilised eggs in a patch on the underside of her body until they hatch into small, pink offspring. The mother then appears to be "giving birth" to her offspring.

1 Linguistics

In linguisticsBroadly conceived, linguistics is the study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. The study of linguistics can be thought of along three major axes, the endpoints of which are described below: Synchronic and diachronic Sy, asking what a person calls a woodlouse is a common question used to determine what part of the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in a person is from based on the name the person uses for woodlice. For example, in the southSouthern American English is a dialect of the English language spoken throughout the Southern region of the United States, from central Kentucky and northern Virginia to the Gulf Coast and from the Atlantic coast to eastern Texas. Southern American Englis, they are almost always called "roley-poleys." In the northeast, they tend to be called "pillbugs." Other names may be used in other regions.



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