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
49
33
2067
2138
journal article
21136
10.1080/00222933.2015.1009512
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1464-5262
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Porcellionides pruinosus
(
Brandt, 1833
)
Metoponorthus
(Metoponorthus) pruinosus
;
Vandel, 1958a
, p. 129
Porcellionides pruinosus
;
Achouri et al., 2008c
, p. 76–78;
Achouri et al., 2008a
, p. 129
Material examined
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
,
St.
13, cave entrance, leg.
C. Rossano
,
28 April 2004
(
MZUF 9488
)
.
Previous Rif records
Peñón de Alhucemas (
Vandel 1958a
); Oued Laou region (
Achouri et al. 2008a
,
2008c
).
Distribution
Species of Mediterranean origin with a cosmopolitan distribution.
Remarks
For diagnostic characters of
P. pruinosus
see
Vandel (1962
, p. 618, Figures 306, 307) and
Gruner (1966
, p. 251, Figures 190–193).