Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Oniscidea > Family Oniscidae > Genus Oniscus

Oniscus asellus Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Oniscus*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: glat bænkebider sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: kelderpissebed sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: common shiny woodlouse sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English-United States: Common Shiny Woodlouse sources: Charles Hussey

Swedish: murgråsugga

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.
basis of record	Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (395 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
GenBank (8 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Schotte, M. (2014). Oniscus asellus Linnaeus, 1758. In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2014) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:257580

Dr Geoffrey Boxshall. Oniscus asellus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=218328