Grey Slater
S1: Eyes + pill shape
Grey Slater
S1: Face
| Grey Slater S1: Eyes + pill shape | | Grey Slater S1: Face | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Crustaceans (Malacostraca) | |||
| Order: | Peracarid Crustaceans (Isopoda) | ||||
| Family: | Terrestrial Crustacean (Armadillidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Grey Slater (Buddelundia sp) | ||||
| This Photo: | S5: Telson hour-glass shape | ||||
Thank you Agapakis Nikos for confirming and Grant Schiermeyer for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Those we have found vary between 10 to 16 mm long. We've photographed 4 live specimens in March, April, June & July. We found the 5th, dead, specimen to highlight the hour-glass shape We thought this was a Pill Bug (Armadillidium vulgare). It's difficult to see here but the Telson (last posterior plate) has an hour-glass shape. Grant spotted our mistake and also noted: "You can tell the families apart by the telson and the front of the head. Armadillids will have an hourglass telson and Armadillidiids have a triangular or trapezoidal telson. The front of an Armadillid head is usually one smooth line that may be broken in the center while an Armadillidiid will have a nose-like projection in the middle of the head." | |||||
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