No common name

Code OR999999

Elongate isopods with short antennules and antennae, and prominent sessile eyes. The abdomen consists of a single free segment before a longer telson. The telson is rectangular or rounded posteriorly. The uropods are flat and together with the telson form a tail fan, but the outer branches (rami) of the uropods are folded dorsally over the telson.

This family is predominantly marine, with undescribed material from a coastal freshwater lake in Victoria (Timms, in Williams, 1980).

References:

Horwitz, P., Knott, B. and Williams, W.D. (1995) A Preliminary Key to the Malacostracan Families (Crustacea) found in Australian Inland Waters . Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology Identification Guide No. 4., Albury, NSW.

Williams, W.D. (1980) Australian Freshwater Life: The Invertebrates of Australian Inland Waters. The Macmillan Company of Australia, Melbourne.

Wilson, G. D. ('Buz'). 1999. Preliminary phylogeny of the Phreatoicidea. Webpage at