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Porcellio scaber Latreille, 1804

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Latreille, P. A. (1804). Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Volume 7: 1–413, pls. 58–66. F. Dufart, Paris. https://www.marinespecies.org/isopoda/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=222666

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Malacostraca
order
Isopoda
family
Porcellionidae
genus
Porcellio
species
Porcellio scaber

Name

Synonyms
Oniscus granulatus Lamarck, 1818
Philoscia tuberculata Stimpson, 1856
Porcellio arcuatus sociabilis L.Koch, 1901
Porcellio asper C.Koch, 1847
Porcellio brandtii H.Milne Edwards, 1840
Porcellio cayennensis Miers, 1878
Porcellio dubius C.Koch, 1841
Porcellio gemmulatus Dana, 1853
Porcellio graniger Miers, 1876
Porcellio graniger White, 1847
Porcellio granulatus Brébisson, 1825
Porcellio granulatus H.Milne Edwards, 1840
Porcellio marginalis Mulaik, 1960
Porcellio montesumae de Saussure, 1857
Porcellio nigra Say, 1818
Porcellio nodieri Dollfus, 1898
Porcellio paulensis Heller, 1865
Porcellio scaber americanus Arcangeli, 1932
Porcellio scaber japonicus Verhoeff, 1928
Porcellio scaber var. flavobrunneus Collinge, 1917
Homonyms
Porcellio scaber Latreille, 1804
Common names
Common Rough Woodlouse in English
Common Rough Woodlouse in English
Common Rough Woodlouse in English
Common rough woodlouse in English
Common rough woodlouse in English
Common rough woodlouse in English
Garden Woodlouse in English
Garden Woodlouse in English
Grå bænkebider in Danish
Grå bænkebider in Danish
Kellerassel in German
Kellerassel in German
Kellerassel in German
Kellerassel in German
Kellerassel in German
Körnerassel in German
Körnerassel in German
Raue Kellerassel in German
Raue Kellerassel in German
Raue Körnerassel in German
Raue Körnerassel in German
Rauhe Kellerassel in German
Rauhe Kellerassel in German
Rough Sowbug in English
Rough Sowbug in English
Scabby Sow Bug in English
Scabby Sow Bug in English
Slater in English
Slater in English
common rough woodlouse in English
common rough woodlouse in English
common rough woodlouse in English
garden woodlouse in English
garden woodlouse in English
kjellerskrukketroll in Norwegian Bokmål
kyhmysiira in Finnish
kyhmysiira in Finnish
källargråsugga in Swedish
källargråsugga in Swedish
rough sowbug in English
rough sowbug in English
ruwe pissebed in Dutch
ruwe pissebed in Dutch
ruwe pissebed in Dutch
scabby sow bug in English
scabby sow bug in English
slater in English
slater in English
woodlouse in language.
ワラジムシ in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Drumm et al. (2016), https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/14990
  2. Eusébio, R. P.; Taiti, S.; Reboleira, A. S. P. S. (2025). Terrestrial isopods (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) from Mesovoid Shallow Substratum habitats of Portugal. <em>Subterranean Biology.</em> 53: 129-153.
  3. Hall (2004) Isopoda
  4. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 67 Addition to the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology (a) of the specific names of Twenty species belonging to the classes Trilobita, Crustacea (other than species of the order Decapoda), Diplopoda and Arachnida, each of which is the type species of a genus, the name of which was placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology up to the end of 1936, and (B) of the specific name of one species belonging to the class Arachnida which is currently treated as a senior synonym of the name of such a species.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1E, 111-128 (1957)
  5. Latreille (1804) Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes : ouvrage faisant suite aux oeuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du cours complet d'histoire naturelle rédigé par C. S. Sonnini
  6. Latreille, P. A. (1804). Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Volume 7: 1-413, pls. 58-66. F. Dufart, Paris.
  7. Leistikow, Andreas and Johann Wolfgang Wägele, 1999: Checklist of the terrestrial isopods of the new world (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea). Revista Brasileira Zoologie, vol. 16, no. 1. 1-72.
  8. Schmalfuss, H. (2003). World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). <em>Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie).</em> 654: 1-341.
  9. Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25].
  10. Taiti and Howarth (1996), http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/op45.pdf
  11. Taiti, S.; Wynne, J. J. (2015). The terrestrial Isopoda (Crustacea, Oniscidea) of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), with descriptions of two new species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 515: 27-49.
  12. Verhoeff, K. W. (1907). Über Isopoden. 10. Aufsatz: Zur Kenntnis der Porcellioniden (Körnerasseln). <em>Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin.</em> 1907: 229-281.
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