Trichoniscidae

{{Short description|Family of woodlice}}

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| image = Trichoniscus pusillus.jpg

| image_caption = Trichoniscus pusillus

| diversity = c. 90 genera

| taxon = Trichoniscidae

| authority = G. O. Sars, 1899 {{ITIS |id=331645 |taxon=Trichoniscidae Sars, 1899 |accessdate=June 26, 2011}}

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = See text

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Trichoniscidae are a family of isopods (woodlice), including the most abundant British woodlouse, Trichoniscus pusillus. Most species of woodlice that have returned to an aquatic or amphibian way of life belong to this family. Several species from the following genera live in water and on land: Titanethes, Cyphonetes, Alpioniscus, Scotoniscus, Bureschia, Brackenridgia, Mexiconiscus, Trichoniscoides, Cretoniscellus, Balearonethes and Cyphoniscellus.{{cite journal |author=Ivo Karaman |year=2003 |title=Macedonethes stankoi n. sp., a rhithral oniscidean isopod (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Trichoniscidae) from Macedonia |journal=Organisms Diversity & Evolution |volume=3 |issue=8 |pages=1–15 |url=http://www.senckenberg.de/odes/03-08.pdf |doi=10.1078/1439-6092-00054}}

Genera

The family Trichoniscidae contains the following genera, including those previously treated as the separate family Buddelundiellidae:{{cite journal |url=http://www.oniscidea-catalog.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/Cat_terr_isop.pdf |title=World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) – revised and updated version |author=Helmut Schmalfuss |year=2003 |journal=Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A |volume=654 |pages=341 pp}}

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