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Issue: Vol. 3154 No. 1: 9 Jan. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-01-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3154.1.3
Page range: 40–46
Abstract views: 64
PDF downloaded: 2

Redescription of Desertoniscus taschkentensis (Verhoeff, 1930) and description of Desertoniscus schmalfussi n. sp. (Isopoda: Oniscidea)

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran
Wetzlarer Strasse 50, D-35398 Giessen, Germany
Isopoda Oniscidea Desertoniscus new species redescription lectotypeOniscidea lectotype

Abstract

Desertoniscus schmalfussi n. sp. is described, D. taschkentensis (Verhoeff, 1930) formerly considered as Protracheonis-cus taschkentensis is redescribed and a lectotype is designated, and their diagnostic characters are figured. Desertoniscusschmalfussi n. sp. differs from all other species of the genus in having long setae on the apex of the male pleopod endopodite I and in having male pereiopod VII carpus with a distinct ridge on the dorsal margin.

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