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Common pill bug (slater) in leaf litter beside the Murrumbidgee River, Narrandera
Record ID record-70d15de3-da94-49b0-8d5d-60262b4ba930
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Pill bug in eucalypt leaf litter, showing the domed, banded body.
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Side-on view of the pill bug among twigs and gumnuts.
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The pill bug pushing under a fallen leaf.
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- Basis of record
- Human observation
- Verbatim identification
- Slater (pill bug)
- Taxon rank
- Species
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Isopoda
- Family
- Armadillidiidae
- Genus
- Armadillidium
- Specific epithet
- vulgare
- Scientific name
- Armadillidium vulgare
- Scientific name authorship
- (Latreille, 1804)
- Name according to
- Australian Faunal Directory
- Nomenclatural code
- ICZN (zoological)
- Taxonomic status
- Accepted
- Name match type
- Exact match
- Checklist
- Atlas of Living Australia name index (AFD)
- Checklist version
- ALA namematching API, checked 2026-11-03
- Scientific name ID
- https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/15b485b9-e327-40d6-b250-a7c05c1e4276
- Identification remarks
- Strongly domed, glossy slate-grey body with pale edges to each segment, smooth outline with a rounded rear end (no projecting tail parts), able to roll into a ball. This matches the introduced common pill bug, by far the commonest rolling slater in southern Australia.
- Identification confidence
- Probable
- Wild, cultivated or captive
- Wild
- Establishment means
- Introduced
- Individual count
- 1
- Life stage
- Adult
- Sex
- Not recorded
- Associated organisms
- Leaf litter and gumnuts of river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis), not identified from the photos.
- Event date
- 2026-11-03
- Sampling protocol
- Seen and photographed close up with a phone (Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra), 12:19 AEDT.
- Occurrence remarks
- One pill bug (a rolling slater) walking through eucalypt leaf litter and gumnuts on sandy soil under river red gums, then pushing into a gap under a leaf.
- Uncertainty remarks
- Species from appearance only; not handled or examined under a microscope. Size estimated, not measured (about 12–15 mm).
- Occurrence status
- Present
- Behaviour
- Walking slowly through leaf litter, then pushing under a fallen leaf.
- Data quality statement
- Identification from photos of the dorsal surface only. Name checked against the ALA name index (AFD). Coordinates from phone GPS; GPS removed from the published images.
- Source
- Rob's phone photos 20261103_121919–121925 (4 frames; 3 chosen)
- Place
- Not shown on public record pages
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Rob Evans (2026). Common pill bug (slater) in leaf litter beside the Murrumbidgee River, Narrandera. Clio Online Museum. https://cliomuseum.org/records/record-70d15de3-da94-49b0-8d5d-60262b4ba930
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Creators
- Rob Evans https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6391-4464 (opens in a new tab) (verified with ORCID)
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Evidence profile and standards
- Darwin Core 2026-05-26
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