asellote

English

Noun

asellote (plural asellotes)

1. (zoology) Any isopod crustacean of the suborder Asellota.
   • 1991, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, volumes 31-32, page 164:

     […] an asellote (Iathrippa longicauda) and a ligiid (Ligia italica) […]

   • 2002, Gary C. B. Poore, W. W. K. Houston, Pamela L. Beesley, Crustacea, page 57:

     […] an asellote isopod from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia […]

   • 2021, Frederick R. Schram, Stefan Koenemann, Evolution and Phylogeny of Pancrustacea, page 472:

     […] but calabozoideans emerged as a sister group to oniscidans rather than asellotes.