Porcellio Siculoccidentalis
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''Porcellio siculoccidentalis'' is a species of
woodlouse A woodlouse (plural woodlice) is an isopod crustacean from the polyphyleticThe current consensus is that Oniscidea is actually triphyletic suborder Oniscidea within the order Isopoda. They get their name from often being found in old wood. ...
in the genus ''
Porcellio ''Porcellio'' is a genus of woodlice in the family Porcellionidae. These crustaceans are found essentially worldwide. A well-known species is the common rough woodlouse, '' Porcellio scaber''. Most of the hundreds of ''Porcellio'' species were ...
'' (family
Porcellionidae Porcellionidae is a terrestrial family of the order Isopoda. This family contains 530 species, found on every continent except Antarctica. The ventral plate of the thoracic exoskeleton flare out slightly over the legs. This "flare" is called t ...
), which is endemic to western
Sicily (man) it, Siciliana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = Ethnicity , demographics1_footnotes = , demographi ...
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References

Porcellionidae Woodlice of Europe Endemic arthropods of Sicily Crustaceans described in 1992 {{Isopod-stub