Common Rough Woodlouse
Porcellio scaber
Animalia
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 2-3 yrs
- Size
- Tiny
- Diet
- Decomposer
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Colony
- Biome
- Temperate forest
- Range
- Europe
- Movement
- Walking
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Armor
- Status
- Common
About
One of the most widespread terrestrial crustaceans in the world, the common rough woodlouse breathes through primitive pseudo-lungs and is more closely related to crabs than to any insect. Unlike pill bugs, it cannot roll into a defensive ball — it simply runs.
Life cycle
- 1.juvenileA juvenile crustacean takes adult form after its larval phase, growing in stages between molts.
- 2.adultFully grown at adult size and full hard shell.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Isopoda
- Family
- Porcellionidae
- Genus
- Porcellio
- Species
- Porcellio scaber