Asellota
Asellota is a suborder of isopod crustaceans found in marine and freshwater environments. Roughly one-quarter of all marine isopods belong to this suborder. Members of this suborder are readily distinguished from other isopods by their complex copulatory apparatus. Other characteristics include six-jointed antennal peduncle, the styliform uropods, the fusion of pleonites 5, 4 and sometimes 3 to the pleotelson, and absence of the first pleopod in females.
Classification
The suborder Asellota comprises these families: Some classifications also include the Microcerberidea within Asellota.Janiroidea Sars, 1897
- Acanthaspidiidae Menzies, 1962
- Dendrotiidae Vanhöffen, 1914
- Desmosomatidae Sars, 1899
- Echinothambematidae Menzies, 1956
- Haplomunnidae Wilson, 1976
- Haploniscidae Hansen, 1916
- Ischnomesidae Hansen, 1916
- Janirellidae Menzies, 1956
- Janiridae Sars, 1897
- Joeropsis Koehler, 1885
- Joeropsididae Nordenstam, 1933
- Katianiridae Svavarsson, 1987
- Macrostylidae Hansen, 1916
- Mesosignidae Schultz, 1969
- Microparasellidae Karaman, 1933
- Mictosomatidae Wolff, 1965
- Munnidae Sars, 1897
- Munnopsidae Lilljeborg, 1864
- Nannoniscidae Hansen, 1916
- Paramunnidae Vanhöffen, 1914
- Pleurocopidae Fresi & Schiecke, 1972
- Santiidae Wilson, 1987
- Thambematidae Stebbing, 1913
- Asellidae Latreille, 1802
- Stenasellidae Dudich, 1924
- Pseudojaniridae Wilson, 1986
- Stenetriidae Hansen, 1905