Grey Slater
S5, Telson hour-glass shape
Ellura
Grey Slater
S1, ventral
 
                      
Grey Slater (Buddelundia sp)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Crustaceans (Malacostraca)
Order: Peracarid Crustaceans (Isopoda)
Family: Terrestrial Crustacean (Armadillidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Grey Slater (Buddelundia sp)
This Photo:     S1, Face

Thank you Agapakis Nikos for confirming and Grant Schiermeyer for helping with the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Those we have found vary between 10 to 16 mm long. We photographed the 5th, dead, specimen to highlight the hour-glass shape
We thought this was a Pill Bug (Armadillidium vulgare).
It's difficult to see here but the Telson (last posterior plate) has an hour-glass shape.
Grant spotted our mistake and also noted: "You can tell the families apart by the telson and the front of the head.
Armadillids will have an hourglass telson and Armadillidiids have a triangular or trapezoidal telson.
The front of an Armadillid head is usually one smooth line that may be broken in the center while an Armadillidiid will have a nose-like projection in the middle of the head."

Copyright © 2015-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 16-Mar-2015
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.