Terrestrial isopods (Oniscidea) represent a widespread group of land Crustacea that have
been able to successfully adapt to the terrestrial environment and occupy newly formed …

The unique properties of terrestrial isopods regarding responses to limiting factors such as
drought and temperature have led to interesting distributional patterns along climatic and …

This chapter deals with the diversity of terrestrial cave invertebrates from the viewpoint of its
contribution to global diversity and of the variety of morphological traits and life forms …

Among the few crustacean taxa that managed to inhabit terrestrial environments, Oniscidea
includes the most successful colonizers in terms of species richness and abundance …

The marine metazoan fauna first diversified in the early Cambrian, but terrestrial
environments were not colonized until at least 100 million years later. Among the groups of …

Fourteen species of terrestrial isopods (Oniscidea) from Brazilian karstic regions are
described as new, ie, Novamundoniscus mandacaru Campos-Filho, Araujo & Bichuette, n …

 Abstract DNA barcoding has become the most popular approach for species identification in
recent years. As part of the German Barcode of Life project, the first DNA barcode library for …

All species of Brazilian terrestrial isopod known up to date, including references and
distribution information, are listed. The list comprises 189 valid species, 135 of which are …

The terrestrial isopod genus Ligidium includes 58 species from Europe, Asia, and North
America. In Eastern North America four species are recognized: L. floridanum and L …

Sex determination systems are highly variable in many taxa, sometimes even between
closely related species. Yet the number and direction of transitions between these systems …