| Porcellionides pruinosus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Isopoda |
| Family: | Porcellionidae |
| Genus: | Porcellionides |
| Species: | P. pruinosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Porcellionides pruinosus (Brandt, 1833) [1] |
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Porcellionides pruinosus is a cosmopolitan woodlouse that is suspected to consist of very closely related species. Ten subspecies are recognised.[1] The species carries Wolbachia endosymbionts, which is an alpha-proteobacterium that is known to modify the reproduction of their crustacean hosts by inducing cytoplasmic incompatibility or feminisation.[2]