Taxonavigation:
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Peracarida
Ordo: Isopoda
Cladus: Scutocoxifera
Subordo: Oniscidea
Infraordo: Ligiamorpha
Family: Trachelipodidae
Genus: Trachelipus
Species: Trachelipus nodulosus
Habitat:
This genus lives in Carpathian – most in Romania, but also in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia: natural/near-natural forests, rocky mountans and highlands. It is very rare in Hungary.
Morphology:
It looks like a T. ratzeburgii and a T. rathkii had been mixed. Great woodlouse, the body length is about 2 cm. It’s colour is brown-orange, the end of membrans are light-brown-orange.
Nutrition:
It feed dead vegetable matters (dead fallen leaves, fungus)
Function in ecology:
This genus –like the others- is a member of the degrade macro invertebrate guild. The main function is int he comminution.
Utilizing by human:
The genus as a degrade fills a part of ecosystem’s metabolism.
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