Alpioniscus sideralis

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Order:Isopoda
Suborder:Oniscidea
Alpioniscus sideralis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Trichoniscidae
Genus: Alpioniscus
Species:
A. sideralis
Binomial name
Alpioniscus sideralis
Taiti & Argano, 2018
ESA CAVES 2012 base camp

Alpioniscus sideralis is a species of freshwater, cave-dwelling woodlice. It was first collected in a karstic Su Bantu cave in Supramonte, Sardinia by a group of astronauts during a subterranean training course CAVES organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2012.[1][2][3][4] The species was formally described in a ZooKeys publication in 2018.[5]

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