Common Rough Woodlouse
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Common Rough Woodlouse (Porcellio scaber)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Crustaceans (Malacostraca)
Order: Peracarid Crustaceans (Isopoda)
Family: Terrestrial Crustacean (Porcellionidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Common Rough Woodlouse (Porcellio scaber)
This Photo:     🔍Ventral🔎
Thank you Matt Campbell (MattCampbellAUS) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~10mm long
Copyright © 2017-2026 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 17-Nov-2017
This species is classed as If (Foreign Introduction)