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Definition of Oniscidae
1. Noun. A family of Isopoda.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Isopoda, Order Isopoda
Member holonyms: Genus Oniscus, Oniscus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oniscidae
Literary usage of Oniscidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Oniscidae. The sow bugs. Terrestrial isopods with an elliptical body, which is
more or less ... Key to the genera of Oniscidae here described: Fig. ..."
2. A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea by Charles Spence Bate, John Obadiah Westwood (1868)
"... apparatus fitted for the use of aquatic existence, whilst the Oniscidae differ
from all the rest in having the branchiae transformed into lungs. ..."
3. Contributions to the Natural History of the Isopoda by Harriet Richardson (1904)
"The Oniscidae, a terrestrial family, have air sacs developed in the ... those of
the first pair often being coalesced in the Oniscidae; in the females these ..."
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