The Chaetiliidae are a family of
isopod crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group can ...
s in the suborder
Valvifera
The Valvifera are marine isopod crustaceans. Valviferans are distinguished, however, by the flat, valve-like uropods which hinge laterally and fold inward beneath the rear part of their bodies, covering the pleopods. Some species are omnivorou ...
, comprising these genera:
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Austrochaetilia''
Poore, 1978
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Chaetilia''
Dana, 1849
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Chiridotea''
Harger, 1878
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Chiriscus''
Richardson, 1911
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Glyptonotus''
Eights, 1852
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Macrochiridothea''
Ohlin, 1901
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Maoridotea''
Jones & Fenwick, 1978
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Parachiridotea''
Daguerre de Hureaux & Elkaïm, 1972
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Proidotea''
Racovitza & Sevastos, 1910
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Saduria''
Adams, 1852
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Saduriella''
Holthuis, 1964
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Stegidotea''
Poore, 1985
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Symmius''
Richardson, 1904
References
External links
Chaetiliidae Dana, 1849 Australian Isopoda: Families
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Valvifera
Crustacean families
Taxa named by James Dwight Dana
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