Suborder LIMNORIIDEA Brandt & Poore, 2002
Introduction
The Limnoriidea include three families, of which the Limnoriidae includes the junior synonym Lynseiidae Poore, 1994. The similarity of these families to each other was recognised by Bruce (1988) and Wägele (1989). While the Limnoriidae are all wood, algal or seagrass borers and therefore herbivores the other two families are not. Both are flattened and, as far as is known, free-living.
- Limnoriidea Brandt, A. & Poore, G.C.B. in Poore, G.C.B. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida, Peracarida: Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea. In Houston, W.W.K. & Beesley, P.L. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 434 pp. [196] [name introduced by Brandt & Poore (2002), who justified its taxonomic status in Brandt, A. & Poore, G.C.B. 2003. Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. Invertebrate Systematics 17: 893-923, p. 917].
Compiled from secondary source:
Brandt, A. & Poore, G.C.B. 2003. Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. Invertebrate Systematics 17: 893-923.
Diagnosis
Mandible incisor with obsolete dentition; lacinia mobilis present; spine row solid base with rows of denticulate spines; molar absent; uropodal rami ventral to pleotelson, articulating from side to side in vertical axis inside branchial space; pleotelson underside flat, without ventrolateral ridges (pleopods not enclosed laterally); pleopods 1-5 similar.
References
Bruce, N.L. 1988. Hadromastax merga, a new genus and species of marine isopod crustacean (Limnoriidae) from south eastern Australia, with discussion on the status of the families Keuphyliidae and Lynseiidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101: 346–353
Wägele, J.W. 1989. Evolution und phylogenetisches System der Isopoda. Stand der Forschung und neue Erkenntnisse. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 140: 1–262