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Rhyscotus  Budde-Lund, 1885
Taxonomic Serial No.: 93290

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s):    
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  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: unknown   
  Latest Record Review: 2004   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumCrustacea Brünnich, 1772 – crustacés, crustáceo, crustaceans  
                   SuperclassAltocrustacea   
                      ClassMalacostraca Latreille, 1802  
                         SubclassEumalacostraca Grobben, 1892  
                            SuperorderPeracarida Calman, 1904 – barata da praia, pulga da praia, tatuzinho de jardim  
                               OrderIsopoda Latreille, 1817 – isopods, pillbugs, sowbugs, cloportes, isopodes  
                                  SuborderOniscidea Latreille, 1802  
                                     InfraorderLigiamorpha Vandel, 1943  
                                        SuperfamilyOniscoidea Latreille, 1802  
                                           FamilyRhyscotidae Budde-Lund, 1908  
                                              GenusRhyscotus Budde-Lund, 1885  
    Direct Children:  
                                                 SpeciesRhyscotus albidemaculatus (Budde-Lund, 1908)  
                                                 SpeciesRhyscotus australis Lewis, 1998  
                                                 SpeciesRhyscotus bicolor Barnard, 1924  
                                                 SpeciesRhyscotus colimensis Mulaik, 1960  
                                                 SpeciesRhyscotus globiceps Budde-Lund, 1908  
                                                 SpeciesRhyscotus jacksoni Arcangeli, 1931  
                                                 SpeciesRhyscotus nasutus Budde-Lund, 1908  
                                                 SpeciesRhyscotus rotundatus Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1978  
                                                 SpeciesRhyscotus somaliensis Ferrara, 1972  
                                                 SpeciesRhyscotus sphaerocephalus Budde-Lund, 1893  
                                                 SpeciesRhyscotus texensis (Richardson, 1905)  
                                                 SpeciesRhyscotus turgifrons Budde-Lund, 1885  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Brian Kensley & Marilyn Schotte   
  Notes: National Museum of Natural History   
  Reference for: Rhyscotus    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Rhyscotus   
       
  Source: World List of Marine, Freshwater & Terrestrial Isopoda... 2005, website (version 04-May-05)  
  Acquired: 2005   
  Notes: Compiled by Brian Kensley, Marilyn Schotte, and Steve Schilling (Oniscidea only), Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Found at http://www.nmnh.si.edu/iz/isopod/   
  Reference for: Rhyscotus   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Leistikow, Andreas and Johann Wolfgang Wägele   
  Publication Date: 1999   
  Article/Chapter Title: Checklist of the terrestrial isopods of the new world (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Revista Brasileira Zoologie, vol. 16, no. 1   
  Page(s): 1-72   
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