Kauaʻi record · KCA-CR-000122
Porcellio scaber
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About Porcellio scaber
Porcellio scaber is an isopod crustacean in the family Porcellionidae. Published sources characterize its origin status as adventive. Published Kauaʻi evidence documents the species from Kauaʻi. The cited evidence includes records dated or referenced to 1996. Evidence types include distribution table. These records establish a documented Kauaʻi occurrence but are not automatically interpreted as a present-day abundance estimate. The documented Kauaʻi habitat context includes terrestrial. For current-status context, historical Kauaʻi occurrence; current population status not reassessed. The study reports multiple Kauaʻi specimen localities. The available Kauaʻi evidence does not support adding island-specific claims about diet, reproduction, behavior, population size, or trend unless those points are stated in the cited sources, so they are not inferred here. Keeping the accepted taxonomic concept together with the dated occurrence evidence allows later surveys to distinguish historical documentation from contemporary status.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Porcellio scaber
- Other names
- Porcellio scaber · crustacean · crustaceans
- Family
- Porcellionidae
- Order
- Isopoda
- Record type
- species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- confirmed by published Kauaʻi occurrence evidence
- Origin
- adventive
- Conservation status
- Not assessed
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- Porcellio scaber (Porcellio scaber) is a confirmed Kauaʻi crustacean species documented from Kauaʻi. The occurrence is retained with its source date and status so historical evidence is not presented as a current population estimate.