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Issue: Vol. 1150 No. 1: 14 Mar. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-03-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1150.1.5
Page range: 53–68
Abstract views: 35
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Niphargus echion, a new species of amphipod (Crustacea Amphipoda, Niphargidae) from Istra, Croatia

Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, P.O. Box 40, 81000 Podgorica, Serbia & Montenegro
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Crustacea taxonomy cave Amphipoda Niphargus Croatia

Abstract

A new species of the freshwater subterranean amphipod genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Crustacea Amphipoda, fam. Niphargidae), N. echion, n. sp., is described and figured from the cave PliÓkoviƒeva jama near Ò ikuti village, Istra (Croatia), and its taxonomic position within the genus Niphargus is discussed.

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