Lirceus
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| Lirceus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Isopoda |
| Family: | Asellidae |
| Genus: | Lirceus Rafinesque, 1820 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Lirceus fontinalis Rafinesque, 1820 | |
Lirceus is a genus of isopod crustaceans in the family Asellidae that live in southern Canada and the eastern United States as far west as the Great Plains.[1] Of the 15 species in the genus,[2] two are listed as either endangered (EN) or vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN Red List.
- Lirceus alabamae Hubricht & Mackin, 1949 – Alabama
- Lirceus bicuspidatus Hubricht & Mackin, 1949 – Arkansas
- Lirceus bidentatus Hubricht & Mackin, 1949 – Arkansas
- Lirceus brachyurus (Harger, 1876) – Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia
- Lirceus culveri Estes & Holsinger, 1976 – Virginia [3]
[4] - Lirceus exohylaus Yox, 2024 - Ohio[5]
- Lirceus fontinalis Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1820 – Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee
- Lirceus garmani Hubricht & Mackin, 1949 – Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma
- Lirceus hargeri Hubricht & Mackin, 1949 – Tennessee, Virginia
- Lirceus hoppinae (Faxon, 1889) – Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma
- Lirceus lineatus (Say, 1818) – Canada, eastern United States
- Lirceus louisianae (Mackin & Hubricht, 1938) – Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana
- Lirceus megapodus Hubricht & Mackin, 1949 – Missouri
- Lirceus richardsonae Hubricht & Mackin, 1949 – Ohio
- Lirceus trilobus Hubricht & Mackin, 1949 – Oklahoma
- Lirceus usdagalun Holsinger & Bowman, 1973 – Virginia [6]
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