asellote

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noun

Any isopod crustacean of the suborder Asellota.

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Meanings

nounasellote (plural asellotes)

plural asellotes

  1. biologyAny isopod crustacean of the suborder Asellota.

    […] an asellote isopod from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia […]

    2002, Gary C. B. Poore, W. W. K. Houston, Pamela L. Beesley, Crustacea, page 57
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    […] an asellote (Iathrippa longicauda) and a ligiid (Ligia italica) […]

    1991, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, volumes 31-32, page 164

    […] but calabozoideans emerged as a sister group to oniscidans rather than asellotes.

    2021, Frederick R. Schram, Stefan Koenemann, Evolution and Phylogeny of Pancrustacea, page 472
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