Species Porcellio scaber Latreille, 1804

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Species Porcellio scaber Latreille, 1804

Porcellio scaber Latreille, P.A. 1804. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés et des Insectes. pp. 1-413 in Buffon, G.L.L. de (ed.). Histoire Naturelle … nouvelle édition accompagnée de Notes … Ouvrage … rédigée par C.S. Sonnini. Paris : F. Dufart Vol. 7 64 vols pp. [45].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (A. Vandel wrote in 1960 to A.J.A. Green that the types, mounted on pins, have turned to dust), locality unknown.
Porcellio graniger Miers, E.J. 1876. Descriptions of some new species of Crustacea, chiefly from New Zealand. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 17: 218-229 [226].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1973.512.1 ♀, New Zealand.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Chilton, C. 1901. The terrestrial Isopoda of New Zealand. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London Zool. 8: 99-152 [139]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from Europe and UK to many places.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- South Australia: Murray-Darling basin
- Tasmania
- Victoria: SE coastal
- Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Dry sclerophyll forest, gardens.

General References

Green, A.J.A. 1961. A study of Tasmanian Oniscoidea (Crustacea: Isopoda). Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 258-365 (ecology)

Green, A.J.A. 1974. Oniscoidea (Terrestrial Isopoda). pp. 229-249 in Williams, W.D. (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania. The Hague : Junk 498 pp.

Green, A.J.A. 1978. Introduced slaters in South Australia (Isopoda: Oniscoidea). South Australian Naturalist 52: 46-49 (distribution in Australia and elsewhere)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
05-Aug-2022	04-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
	29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED

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