Asellota
Suborder of crustaceans
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Asellota is a suborder of isopod crustaceans found in marine and freshwater environments.[2] Roughly one-quarter of all marine isopods belong to this suborder.[3] Members of this suborder are readily distinguished from other isopods by their complex copulatory apparatus. Other characteristics include six-jointed antennal peduncle, the styliform uropods (a character shared with some other isopod groups), the fusion of pleonites 5, 4 and sometimes 3 to the pleotelson, and absence of the first pleopod in females.[3][4]
| Asellota | |
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| Asellus aquaticus, Asellidae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Isopoda |
| Suborder: | Asellota Latreille, 1802 [1] |
| Superfamilies | |
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Aselloidea | |
Classification
The suborder Asellota comprises these families:[5] Some classifications also include the Microcerberidea within Asellota.[5]
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Janiroidea Sars, 1897
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Aselloidea Latreille, 1802
Stenetrioidea Hansen, 1905
Gnathostenetroidoidea Kussakin, 1967
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