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Woodlouse

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A woodlouse (plural woodlice) is a terrestrial isopod crustacean with a rigid, segmented, long exoskeleton and fourteen jointed limbs. [1]

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Agnaridae

Agnaridae is a family of woodlice.

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Alloniscidae

Alloniscidae is a family of woodlice in the order Isopoda.

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Antlion

The antlions are a group of about 2,000 species of insect in the family Myrmeleontidae, known for the fiercely predatory habits of their larvae, which in many species dig pits to trap passing ants or other prey.

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ARKive

ARKive is a global initiative with the mission of "promoting the conservation of the world's threatened species, through the power of wildlife imagery", which it does by locating and gathering films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species into a centralised digital archive.

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Armadillidae

Armadillidae is a family of woodlice (Oniscidea; terrestrial crustaceans), comprising around 80 genera and 700 species.

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Armadillidiidae

Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda.

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Armadillidium

Armadillidium is a genus of the small terrestrial crustacean known as the woodlouse.

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Armadillidium vulgare

Armadillidium vulgare, the (common) pill-bug, potato bug, (common) pill woodlouse, roly-poly, doodle bug, or carpenter, is a widespread European species of woodlouse.

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Arthropod cuticle

The cuticle forms the major part of the integument of the Arthropoda.

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Asexual reproduction

Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single organism, and inherit the genes of that parent only; it does not involve the fusion of gametes, and almost never changes the number of chromosomes.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and over six thousand smaller isles.

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Brood pouch (Peracarida)

The marsupium or brood pouch, is a characteristic feature of Peracarida, including the orders Amphipoda, Isopoda and Cumacea.

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Convergent evolution

Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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Crab

Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen) (translit.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans (Crustacea) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles.

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Cylisticidae

Cylisticidae is a family of woodlice in the order Isopoda.

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Delatorreidae

Delatorreidae is a family of woodlice, including the genera Cuzcodinella and Pseudarmadillo.

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Detonidae

Detonidae is a family of woodlice in the order Isopoda.

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Detritivore

Detritivores, also known as detrivores, detritophages, detritus feeders, or detritus eaters, are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus (decomposing plant and animal parts as well as feces).

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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Dysdera

Dysdera is a genus of spiders from the family Dysderidae.

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Ecdysis

Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa.

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Egg

An egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an animal embryo develops until it can survive on its own; at which point the animal hatches.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Excretion

Excretion is the process by which metabolic waste is eliminated from an organism.

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Exoskeleton

An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω, éxō "outer" and σκελετός, skeletós "skeleton") is the external skeleton that supports and protects an animal's body, in contrast to the internal skeleton (endoskeleton) of, for example, a human.

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Fertilisation

Fertilisation or fertilization (see spelling differences), also known as generative fertilisation, conception, fecundation, syngamy and impregnation, is the fusion of gametes to initiate the development of a new individual organism.

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Geoplanidae

Geoplanidae is a family of flatworms known commonly as land planarians or land flatworms.

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Glomerida

Glomerida is an order of pill-millipedes found primarily in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Glomeris marginata

Glomeris marginata is a common European species of pill millipede.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England.

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Guildford

Guildford is a large town in Surrey, England, United Kingdom located southwest of central London on the A3 trunk road midway between the capital and Portsmouth.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hemilepistus reaumuri

Hemilepistus reaumuri is a species of woodlouse that lives in and around the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, "the driest habitat conquered by any species of crustacean".

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Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council.

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Insectivore

robber fly eating a hoverfly An insectivore is a carnivorous plant or animal that eats insects.

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Isopoda

Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives.

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Kansas State University

Kansas State University (KSU), commonly shortened to Kansas State or K-State, is a public research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Ligia oceanica

Ligia oceanica, the sea slater, common sea slater or sea roach, is a littoral woodlouse.

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Ligiidae

Ligiidae is a family of woodlice, the only family in the infraorder Diplocheta.

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Lobster

Lobsters comprise a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homaridae) of large marine crustaceans.

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Luteostriata

Luteostriata is a genus of land planarians from Brazil characterized by a yellow body with dark longitudinal stripes.

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Luteostriata abundans

Luteostriata abundans is a species of Brazilian land planarian in the subfamily Geoplaninae.

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Massey University

Massey University (Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Раlmеrstоn Nоrth, Nеw Zеаlаnd, with significant campuses in Аlbаny and Wellington.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Mesoniscus

Mesoniscus is a genus of woodlice, placed in its own family, Mesoniscidae, and section, Microcheta.

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MIT Press

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States).

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Museums Victoria

Museums Victoria is an organisation which operates three major state-owned museums in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the Melbourne Museum, the Immigration Museum and Scienceworks.

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Newfoundland (island)

Newfoundland (Terre-Neuve) is a large Canadian island off the east coast of the North American mainland, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; Akamassiss; Newfoundland Irish: Talamh an Éisc agus Labradar) is the most easterly province of Canada.

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Nocturnality

Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.

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North West Kent

Kent is a county in southeast England.

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Oniscidae

Oniscidae is a family of woodlice, including the common woodlouse Oniscus asellus.

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Oniscus asellus

Oniscus asellus, the common woodlouse, is one of the largest and most common species of woodlouse in the British Isles and Western and Northern Europe, growing to lengths of 16 mm and widths of 6 mm.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Philoscia muscorum

Philoscia muscorum, the common striped woodlouse or fast woodlouse, is a common European woodlouse.

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Philosciidae

Philosciidae are a family of woodlice (terrestrial isopod crustaceans).

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Pierre André Latreille

Pierre André Latreille (29 November 1762 – 6 February 1833) was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods.

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Pill millipede

Pill millipedes are any members of two living (and one extinct) orders of millipedes, often grouped together into a single superorder, Oniscomorpha.

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Platyarthridae

Platyarthridae is a family of woodlice, containing the following genera.

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Porcellio scaber

Porcellio scaber (otherwise known as the common rough woodlouse or simply rough woodlouse), is a species of European woodlouse.

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Porcellionidae

Porcellionidae is a terrestrial family of the order Isopoda.

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Pudeoniscidae

Pudeoniscidae is a family of malacostracans in the order Isopoda.

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Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Rhyscotidae

Rhyscotidae is a family of woodlice, (Oniscidea; terrestrial crustaceans).

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Salt Publishing

Salt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia.

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Scleropactidae

Scleropactidae is a family of woodlice, with a predominantly Gondwanan distribution.

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Spider

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom.

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Styloniscidae

Styloniscidae is a family of woodlice, including the following genera.

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Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g., cats, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g., fish, lobsters, octopuses), or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g., frogs, or newts).

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The Caledonian-Record

The Caledonian-Record is a daily newspaper published in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.

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The Charlotte Observer

The Charlotte Observer is a newspaper serving Charlotte and its metro area.

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The Vancouver Sun

The Vancouver Sun is a daily newspaper first published in the Canadian province of British Columbia on 12 February 1912.

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Trachea

The trachea, colloquially called the windpipe, is a cartilaginous tube that connects the pharynx and larynx to the lungs, allowing the passage of air, and so is present in almost all air-breathing animals with lungs.

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Trachelipodidae

Trachelipodidae is a family of woodlice, containing the following genera.

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Trichoniscidae

Trichoniscidae are a family of isopods (woodlice), including the most abundant British woodlouse, Trichoniscus pusillus.

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Trichoniscus pusillus

Trichoniscus pusillus, sometimes called the common pygmy woodlouse, is one of the five most common species of woodlice in the British Isles.

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Tylidae

Tylidae is a family of woodlice.

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Woodlouse spider

The woodlouse spider, Dysdera crocata, is a species of spider that preys primarily upon woodlice.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlouse

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