Terrestrial isopods from the Oued Laou basin, north-eastern Morocco (Crustacea: Oniscidea), with descriptions of two new genera and seven new species
Author
Taiti, Stefano
Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Florence, Italy;
Author
Rossano, Claudia
Dipartimento di Biologia, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
text
Journal of Natural History
2015
2015-02-28
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33
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2138
journal article
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10.1080/00222933.2015.1009512
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1464-5262
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Halophiloscia couchii
(
Kinahan, 1858
)
Philoscia couchii
;
Dollfus, 1896
, p. 548
Philoscia Couchii
;
Paulian de Félice, 1939
, p. 192
Halophiloscia couchi
;
Vandel, 1958a p
. 128
Halophiloscia couchii
;
Taiti and López, 2008
, p. 44,
Figures 1A–C
,
8A,B
,
9
Material examined
10 ♂♂
,
21 ♀♀
,
St.
1, under debris on beach, leg.
S. Taiti
and
C. Rossano
,
28 September 2005
(
MZUF 9457
,
9458
)
;
7 ♂♂
,
6 ♀♀
,
St.
5, beach under stones, leg.
S. Taiti
and
C. Rossano
,
1 May 2004
(
MZUF 9459
)
.
Previous Rif records
Melilla
, Mar Chica (
Vandel 1958a
); Oued Laou (
Taiti and López 2008
).
Distribution
Coasts of the Atlantic Ocean from
Senegal
to the British Isles, Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands,
Cape Verde
, Mediterranean and Black Sea. Introduced to North and South America, Hawaii and
Australia
.
Remarks
For diagnostic characters of
H. couchii
see
Schmidt (2003
, Figures 52–57) and
Taiti and López (2008
, p. 44,
Figures 1A–C
,
8A,B
).