Oniscus

Onisciform: shaped like a wood-louse, Oniscus sp.; applied to certain

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

(Oniscus), very like our common English species, on a nearly perpendicular slope.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

This singular insect has full as much the appearance of an Oniscus as a Cancer; but the formation of its tail, which is arti - culated, and 'received into a proper channel beneath the body, seems to demand a preference to the latter; though perhaps, in fact, it does not strictly belong to any of the Linnaean genera*

Transactions of the Linnean Society 1791

But little he cared; for as soon as the ruins of the steeple were well between his legs, he poked and peered among the falling stones, and shifted his spectacles, and pulled out his pocket-magnifier, and cried — “An entirely new Oniscus, and three obscure Podurellae!

The Water Babies 2007

"Finally, those of the arachnides which have frequented the water, which have consequently become progressively habituated to live in it, and which finally cease to expose themselves to the air -- this indicates the relations which, connecting the Scolopendræ to Julus, this to the Oniscus, and the last to Asellus, shrimps, etc., have caused the existence of all the Crustacea.

Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work 1872

(Oniscus, a genus of terrestrial crustacea or "pill-bugs"); this was followed by his second memoir on the anatomy of the limpet, his next article being descriptions of two species of flies from his collection of insects. [

Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work 1872

"An entirely new Oniscus, and three obscure Podurellae!

The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 1847

"An entirely new Oniscus, and three obscure Podurellæ!

The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby Charles Kingsley 1847