In rainy weather Porcellio scaber is often found on tree trunks. From Wordnik.com. [Do isopods grow on trees?] Reference
I saw snails, an Oxychilus sp., and the isopod Porcellio spinicornis. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
SNAIL'S TALES: An isopod from Canada: Porcellio spinicornis skip to main. From Wordnik.com. [An isopod from Canada: Porcellio spinicornis] Reference
A: Porcellio spinicornis from Montreal; B: Porcellio scaber from Maryland. From Wordnik.com. [An isopod from Canada: Porcellio spinicornis] Reference
Post revised 18 April 2008: In the original post I had identified this isopod as Porcellio spinicornis. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
I wrote about Porcellio spinicornis, an isopod I photographed and collected in my sister's backyard in Montreal last month. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
Isopod expert Helmut Schmalfuss has e-mailed the following comments regarding the identifications of these isopods: the isopods on your photographs no. 2 and 3 belong to the same species, they are different color morphs of Porcellio scaber, which is the most common terrestrial isopod in western Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Do isopods grow on trees?] Reference
Sauropods and the woodlouse Porcellio scaber were infinitely more interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Jalopnik] Reference
Consumption of two Bt and six non-Bt corn varieties by the woodlouse Porcellio scaber. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Consumers Association News Headlines] Reference
There were 2 species of isopods: the one on the left was probably an Armadillidium nasatum and the one in the middle probably a Porcellio scaber. From Wordnik.com. [SNAIL'S TALES] Reference
He who could brook no contradiction from a prince or soldier, allowed the pedantic scholars of the sixteenth century to dictate to him in matters of taste, and sat with exemplary humility at the feet of Latinists like Porcellio, Basinio, and Trebanio. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series] Reference
An isopod from Canada: Porcellio spinicornis. From Wordnik.com. [Some sort of defensive moth fluid on my fingers] Reference
I have identified it as Porcellio spinicornis. From Wordnik.com. [An isopod from Canada: Porcellio spinicornis] Reference
Funeral Orations, in which there is no inflation, nothing declamatory, a perfect absence of straining after effect, yet a rising with ease into veins of sublime rhetoric, while he is close, severe and antique: -- hence the principal position that is given to him as an orator by Porcellio in a poem where Marsuppini is called upon to chaunt the praises of Ciriano of Ancona (see. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century] Reference
Porcellio, ii. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
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