Re: USAGE: names for pillbug/wood louse/woodbug

Roger Mills scripsit:

> I'm familiar-- via that Cajun gent who used to cook on PBS-- with that
> regional use of bug = crayfish (shrimp or prawn to the rest of us; I've
> never understood the fine distinctions).
Crayfish = crawfish = crawdads are by no means shrimp = prawns.  The former
comprise about 500 species, almost all fresh-water, and belong to the families
Astacidae, Parastacidae, and Austroastacidae of the order Decapoda of the
class Crustacea of the phylum Arthropoda.  Shrimp comprise about 2000 species,
mostly oceanic, and constitute the suborder Natantia of the same order Decapoda.
(Suborders are an optional classification level; not all families belong to
suborders.)

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