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
c5336d61-ecae-4eb6-8592-60f43e587af8
1464-5262
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DCBF3103-1463-4A32-9BC0-A4CFE8B762AE
Stenoniscus carinatus
Silvestri, 1897
Material examined
1 ♀
,
St.
5, beach under stones, leg.
S. Taiti
and
C. Rossano
,
1 May 2004
(
MZUF 9475
)
.
Distribution
This littoral species is common along the coasts of Canary Islands,
Portugal
,
Corsica
,
Italy
,
Malta
and
Croatia
. It is also recorded from Florida (
Taiti and Ferrara 1996
), where it is most probably introduced. New record for the Rif region and northern Africa.
Remarks
For diagnostic characters of
S. carinatus
see
Schmidt (2003
, Figures 67–72).