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Arcturidae
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Arcturidae

The Arcturidae are a family of marine isopod crustaceans in the suborder Valvifera. Members of the family resemble woodlice and are found globally in cooler areas in shallow seas.

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9 branches of this family, most-observed first

Astacilla

genusAstacilla

Arcturus

genusArcturus

Skeleton Louse

genusNeastacilla

Idarcturus

genusIdarcturus

Parastacilla

genusParastacilla

Arcturina

genusArcturina

Spectrarcturus

genusSpectrarcturus

Edwinjoycea

genusEdwinjoycea

Arcturinoides

genusArcturinoides

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 245446.