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Issue: Vol. 2677 No. 1: 16 Nov. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-11-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2677.1.1
Page range: 1–14
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A new species and first record of Gabunillo Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1983 (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Armadillidae) from the Neotropics

Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Laboratório de Carcinicultura. Av. Dedé Brasil, 1700, CEP 60714-242, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, Departamento de Invertebrados, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n, São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP 20940-040, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, Departamento de Invertebrados, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n, São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP 20940-040, Brazil
Crustacea Malacostraca terrestrial crustaceans semi-arid cave life Karst caatinga Brazil

Abstract

A new species of terrestrial isopod, Gabunillo aridicola sp. nov., is described from Ceará and Rio Grande do Norte States, in Karstic formations in the Brazilian semi-arid (caatinga). This genus, hitherto monotypic, was known only from Gabon. This occurrence is remarkable because very few genera of Armadillidae are known from both Afrotropics and Neotropics, and because it offers evidence of a tropical Gondwana biogeographical component.

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