Tags: Crustacean.

Hemilepistus reaumuri is a species of woodlouse that lives in and around the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East the driest habitat conquered by any species of crustacean. It reaches a length of 22 mm (0.87 in) and a width of up to 12 mm (0.47 in) and has seven pairs of legs which hold its body unusually high off the ground.

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binomial authority
Henri Milne-Edwards
class
Malacostraca
family
Trachelipodidae
genus
Hemilepistus
kingdom
Animal
order
Isopoda, Woodlouse
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Hemilepistus bodenheimeri, *Hemilepistus palaestinus, *Paraniambia tuberculata, *Porcellio reaumuri

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