Philoscia muscorum

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,869 meters (0 to 12,694 feet).[1]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Aug-2005

Similar Species

Members of the genus Philoscia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. muscorum (Striped Woodlouse) · P. muscorum muscorum (Striped Woodlouse)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of land, fresh-water, and marine crustacea found in the basin of the River Forth and its estuary. Edinburgh, The Society, 1906. url p. 140.
• A guide to the natural history of the Isle of Wight: a series of contributions by specialists relating to the various branches of natural history and kindred subjects / edited by Frank Morey. Newport, Isle of Wight: The County Press, 1909. url p. 284.
• A history of British sessile-eyed Crustacea / by C. Spence Bate and J. O. Westwood. London: J. Van Voorst, 1863-68. url p. 450, p. 451, p. 453.
• A history of Crustacea; recent Malacostraca, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1893. url .
• A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea. By C. Spence Bate. .. and J.O. Westwood. .. London, J. Van Voorst, 1863-68. url p. 450, p. 450, p. 451, p. 451, p. 453, p. 453.
• An account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. By G.O. Sars. .. Christiania, A. Cammermeyer, 1895-1928. url , , p. 175, p. 185.
• An atlas of the chromosome numbers in animals. Ames, Iowa State College Press[1951] url p. 55.
• British journal of entomology and natural history. [London]: British Entomological and Natural History Society, 1988- url p. 86.
• British land Isopoda. A.M. Norman. S.l.: s.n., 1903? url p. 372.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1909 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 244.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url , , , , , , , , .
• Contributions towards a fauna and flora of the county of Cork, read at the meeting of the British association held at Cork in the year 1843. The Vertebrata by Dr. Harvey. The Mollusca, Crustacea and Echinodermata by J.D. Humphreys. The flora by Dr. Power. (Published by the Cuvierian society of Cork) London, J. Van Voorst, 1845. url p. 22.
• Elements of natural history, adapted to the present state of the science, containing the generic characters of nearly the whole animal kingdom, and the descriptions of the principal species. By John Stark. .. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood; [etc., etc.], 1828. url p. 183.
• Entomological news. [Philadelphia]American Entomological Society, 1925- url p. 113, p. 117, p. 198.
• Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club. Buckhurst Hill, Essex, The Club. url , p. 106, p. 83, p. 91.
• Fauna, flora & geology of the Clyde area, ed. by G.F. Scott Elliot, Malcolm Laurie and J. Barclay Murdoch. Glasgow, Pub. by the local committee for the meeting of the British Association, 1901. url p. 336.
• General embryological information service. Utrecht, Hubrecht Laboratory. url p. 53, p. 56, p. 61, p. 65, p. 82.
• Journal and proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 10 1914 Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bengal. url p. 366.
• Life of a Scotch naturalist, Thomas Edward, associate of the Linnean Society by Samuel Smiles. .. portrait and illustrations by George Reid, R.S.A. London: J. Murray, 1877 url p. 436.
• Life of a Scotch naturalist: Thomas Edward, associate of the Linnaean Society. New York, Harper & brothersc1876. url .
• List of the specimens of Crustacea in the collection of the British Museum. London, Printed by order of the Trustees [by E. Newman]1847. url p. 72.
• Occasional papers of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston: The Society, 1869-1941. url , , p. 347, p. 354.
• Proceedings and transactions of the British Entomological and Natural History Society. London, British Entomological and Natural History Society. url p. 74.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 447, p. 451.
• Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1841- url , p. 3.
• Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: The Society, 1858-1955 url p. 307, p. 75.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 339, p. 664, p. 675, p. 95.
• Results of the Swedish zoological expedition to Egypt and the White Nile, 1901, under the direction of L.A. Jägerskiöld. [Uppsala]Library of the Royal University of Uppsala[1904-11] url p. 9.
• Revised nomenclature of the species described in Bate and Westwood's 'British sessile-eyed Crustacea.' / A.M. Norman. S.l.: s.n., 1905? url p. 95.
• Spiders, scorpions, centipedes, and mites; the ecology and natural history of woodlice, myriapods, and arachnids. New York, Pergamon Press, 1958. url p. 4, p. 6.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 319, p. 372, p. 73, p. 73, p. 75, p. 75, p. 88, p. 95.
• The Annals of Scottish natural history. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1892-1911. url p. 84.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url , , p. 313, p. 348, p. 349, p. 364, p. 561.
• The British woodlice, being a monograph of the terrestrial isopod Crustacea occurring in the British Islands. By Wilfred Mark Webb. .. and Charles Sillem. London, Duckworth & Co., 1906. url , , .
• The Cambridge natural history, ed. by S.F. Harmer. .. and A.E. Shipley. .. London, The Macmillan, Company, 1895-1909 url p. 129, p. 560, p. 560, p. 560.
• The Entomologist's record and journal of variation. s.l., s.n. url p. 51.
• The Irish naturalist. Dublin: Eason & Son, Ltd., 1892- url p. 115, p. 163, p. 187, p. 196, p. 206, p. 29, p. 59, p. 92.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. London: Academic Press [etc.], 1865-1968. url p. 291, p. 549.
• The Review of applied entomology. Farnham Royal, Eng., etc.: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, etc. url p. 35, p. 697.
• The Scottish naturalist. Arbroath [etc.]T. Buncle & Co. [etc.] url p. 113, p. 251, p. 295, p. 95.
• The Victoria history of Berkshire. edited by P.H. Ditchfield and William Page. [LondonConstable]1906-1923 url p. 129, p. 130.
• The Victoria history of the County of Hertford / edited by William Page. London: Published for the University of London, Institute of Historical Research by Dawsons of Pall Mall, [1971] url , .
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• The Zoological journal. London: W. Phillips, 1824- url p. 61.
• The crustacea of Devon and Cornwall, by Canon A. M. Norman and Thomas Scott. London, Wesley, 1906. url p. 50.
• The crustacea of Northumberland and Durham / Canon A.M. Norman and G. Stewardson Brady. S.l.: s.n., 19--? url p. 46.
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 18, 2007:

• UK National Biodiversity Network, Biological Records Centre - Isopoda

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2708900
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-206377
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4706086
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 206377
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 414819

Footnotes

1. Mean = 138.060 meters (452.953 feet), Standard Deviation = 593.400 based on 33,646 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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