Rhyscotus
| Rhyacotus rotundatus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Euarthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Superorder: | Peracarida |
| Order: | Isopoda |
| Family: | Rhyscotidae |
| Genus: | Rhyscotus |
| Species: | R. rotundatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Rhyscotus rotundatus Schmallfuss & Ferrara, 1978 | |
Rhyscotus rotundatus is an endemic species of armadillo woodlice, a land crustacean isopods of the family Rhyscotidae that lives in the island of São Tomé in São Tomé and Príncipe.[1] It is the only species of the genus Rhyscotus. The genus and the species were described in 1978 by Helmut Schmallfuss and Franco Ferrara.
The genus name is Latin for "being round".
References
- ↑ Schlotte, M. Metaperiscyhops. Marine Species. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
Further reading
- Schmalfuss, H. 2003. World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A Nr. 654: 341 pp.
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