AGUIDETOTHECOASTALISOPODSOFCALIFORNIA.docVIP

A GUIDE TO THE COASTAL ISOPODS OF CALIFORNIA Richard C. Brusca, Vania R. Coelho, Stefano Taiti This file is available online at: /notes/?note_id=3004 The order Isopoda is one of nine orders in the crustacean superorder Peracarida. Peracarids are the “marsupial crustaceans,” distinguished from the three other eumalacostracan superorders (Hoplocarida, Syncarida, Eucarida) by the following combination of characters: embryos brooded by females in a marsupium constructed by specialized thoracic coxal endites called o?stegites (except in Thermosbaenacea, which carry broods beneath the carapac