<strong>A new genus of Trachelipodidae Strouhal, 1953 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) from the eastern Mediterranean</strong>

GIOVANNA MONTICELLI CARDOSO; STEFANO TAITI; SPYROS SFENTHOURAKIS

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4040.1.1

Issue: Vol. 4040 No. 1: 9 Nov. 2015

Type: Article

Published: 2015-11-10

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.1.1

Page range: 1–16

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A new genus of Trachelipodidae Strouhal, 1953 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) from the eastern Mediterranean

GIOVANNA MONTICELLI CARDOSO⁺⁻
STEFANO TAITI⁺⁻
SPYROS SFENTHOURAKIS⁺⁻

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Laboratório de Carcinologia, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Agronomia, 91510-070 Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy.

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, Panepistimiou ave. 1, P.O. Box 20537, 1678 Aglanztia, Nicosia, Cyprus.

Crustacea Oniscidea Levantoniscus new species Cyprus Near East

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Abstract

Levantoniscus n. gen. is erected for two new species from Cyprus: Levantoniscus bicostulatus n. sp. and Levantoniscus makrisi n. sp. Levantoniscus wahrmani (Strouhal, 1968) n. comb. from Israel and southern Turkey is transferred from the genus Bathytropa Budde-Lund, 1885 and family Bathytropidae. The new genus is included in the family Trachelipodidae and is characterized by distinct dorsal ornamentation, interlocking pleopods and uncovered pleopodal lungs which are located in invaginations on pleopod 3–5 exopodites.