Notes ²

While there are native pillbugs, these introduced ones are the most common and most abundant. Ones that are blueish/purplish are not a different species, but rather the same species infected by a blue/purple iridovirus.

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1. (c) Rhithrogena22, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/57984606@N00/1096722226
2. (c) sea-kangaroo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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• iNaturalist NZ taxon page
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