Asellota is a suborder of isopod crustaceans found in marine and freshwater environments. Roughly one-quarter of all marine isopods belong to this suborder. Members of this suborder are readily distinguished from other isopods by their complex copulatory apparatus. Other characteristics include six-jointed antennal peduncle, the styliform uropods (a character shared with some other isopod groups), the fusion of pleonites 5, 4 and sometimes 3 to the pleotelson, and absence of the first pleopod in females.
Classification
The suborder Asellota comprises these families: Some classifications also include the Microcerberidea within Asellota.
Janiroidea <small>Sars, 1897</small>
- Acanthaspidiidae <small>Menzies, 1962</small>
- Dendrotiidae <small>Vanhöffen, 1914</small>
- Desmosomatidae <small>Sars, 1899</small>
- Echinothambematidae <small>Menzies, 1956</small>
- Haplomunnidae <small>Wilson, 1976</small>
- Haploniscidae <small>Hansen, 1916</small>
- Ischnomesidae <small>Hansen, 1916</small>
- Janirellidae <small>Menzies, 1956</small>
- Janiridae <small>Sars, 1897</small>
- Joeropsis <small>Koehler, 1885</small>
- Joeropsididae <small>Nordenstam, 1933</small>
- Katianiridae <small>Svavarsson, 1987</small>
- Macrostylidae <small>Hansen, 1916</small>
- Mesosignidae <small>Schultz, 1969</small>
- Microparasellidae <small>Karaman, 1933</small>
- Mictosomatidae <small>Wolff, 1965</small>
- Munnidae <small>Sars, 1897</small>
- Munnopsidae <small>Lilljeborg, 1864</small>
- Nannoniscidae <small>Hansen, 1916</small>
- Paramunnidae <small>Vanhöffen, 1914</small>
- Pleurocopidae <small>Fresi & Schiecke, 1972</small>
- Santiidae <small>Wilson, 1987</small>
- Thambematidae <small>Stebbing, 1913</small>
Aselloidea <small>Latreille, 1802</small>
Stenetrioidea <small>Hansen, 1905</small>
Gnathostenetroidoidea <small>Kussakin, 1967</small>
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