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Issue: Vol. 3994 No. 3: 3 Aug. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-08-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3994.3.2
Page range: 354–376
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 1

Molecular phylogeny of Niphargus boskovici (Crustacea: Amphipoda) reveals a new species from epikarst

Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 111, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia.
Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 111, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia.
Speleological Society “Špiljar”, Varaždinska 53, Split 21000, Croatia.
Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 111, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia.
Niphargus taxonomy cryptic species epikarst

Abstract

We describe a new species of an amphipod Niphargus zagorae sp. n. and redescribe its nearest relative and morphologically similar species N. boskovici S. Karaman, 1952. We present the geographic distributions of both species, morphological diagnoses and infer their phylogenetic position within the genus based on COI, 28S and H3 markers.