Extreme close up of the common woodlouse (Oniscus asellus) on a leaf


A woodlouse (plural woodlice) is a crustacean with a rigid, segmented, long exoskeleton and fourteen jointed limbs. Woodlice form the suborder Oniscidea within the order Isopoda, with over 3,000 known species.


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Location: Oxfordshire, UK
Photo credit: © Julian Brooks / Alamy / Afripics
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