Open AccessNew species and records of terrestrial Isopoda (Crustacea, Oniscidea) from Socotra Island, Yemen
Author(s) -
Stefano Taiti,
Ilaria Checcucci
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
zookeys
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1313-2989
pISSN - 1313-2970
DOI - 10.3897/zookeys.31.140
Subject(s) - isopoda , archipelago , genus , crustacean , endemism , ecology , geography , key (lock) , zoology , biology
Twenty-seven species of terrestrial Isopoda are recorded from Socotra Island (Yemen). One genus (Dumetoniscus)in the family Bathytropidae and three species (Serendibia cavernicola, Dumetoniscus graniticus and Platyarthrus alticolus) are described as new. A key to the 41 species of Oniscidea presently known from the Socotra Archipelago is given. Th e new records confi rm the high number of endemics present on this archipelago
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