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<mods:title>The millipede genus Tasmaniosoma Verhoeff, 1936 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia, with descriptions of 18 new species</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Mesibov, Robert</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName authority="Mesibov, 2010" authorityName="Mesibov" authorityYear="2010" box="[140,400,729,756]" class="Diplopoda" family="Dalodesmidae" genus="Tasmaniosoma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Polydesmida" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fragile" status="sp. n.">
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<emphasis box="[140,317,730,756]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" reason="1">Tasmaniosoma</emphasis>
fragile
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Fig. 16; map
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<paragraph blockId="29.[140,1108,870,1672]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">
<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2608941440" collectingDate="1988-07-20" collectionCode="EP, R" country="Australia" elevation="0" latitude="-41.854443" location="Apsley River" longLatPrecision="19" longitude="148.20139" municipality="Male" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" specimenCode="QVM 23" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Tasmania" typeStatus="holotype">
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<typeStatus box="[140,256,871,897]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">Holotype</typeStatus>
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.
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,
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,
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,
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,
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<geoCoordinate box="[960,1108,870,897]" degrees="148" direction="east" minutes="12" orientation="longitude" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" precision="15" seconds="05" value="148.20139">148°12'05&quot;E</geoCoordinate>
(
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<collectionCode box="[148,183,906,933]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">EP</collectionCode>
996655
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,
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</elevation>
,
<date box="[480,629,906,932]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" value="1988-07-20">
<collectingDate box="[480,629,906,932]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" value="1988-07-20">20 July 1988</collectingDate>
</date>
,
<collectionCode box="[642,664,906,932]" country="Chile" name="Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">R</collectionCode>
. Mesibov,
<specimenCode box="[783,890,906,933]" collectionCode="QVM" country="Australia" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/2s8k-2m7w" name="Queen Victoria Museum" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">QVM 23</specimenCode>
:51666.
</materialsCitation>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="29.[140,1108,870,1672]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">
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<typeStatus box="[185,303,941,967]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">Paratypes</typeStatus>
</emphasis>
.
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<specimenCount box="[316,396,941,967]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" type="male">1 male</specimenCount>
, details as for
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,
<specimenCode box="[675,782,941,967]" collectionCode="QVM" country="Australia" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/2s8k-2m7w" name="Queen Victoria Museum" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">QVM 23</specimenCode>
:46766
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;
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<specimenCount box="[879,959,941,967]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" type="male">1 male</specimenCount>
, same details but
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<geoCoordinate box="[323,470,976,1002]" degrees="148" direction="east" minutes="11" orientation="longitude" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" precision="15" seconds="47" value="148.1964">148°11'47&quot;E</geoCoordinate>
(
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<collectionCode box="[486,521,976,1003]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">EP</collectionCode>
992655
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) ±
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<elevation box="[641,717,976,1003]" metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.0" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" unit="m" value="100.0">100 m</elevation>
</quantity>
,
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<collectingDate box="[729,878,976,1002]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" value="1988-07-19">19 July 1988</collectingDate>
</date>
,
<specimenCode box="[891,997,976,1003]" collectionCode="QVM" country="Australia" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/2s8k-2m7w" name="Queen Victoria Museum" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">QVM 23</specimenCode>
:46765
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="29.[140,1108,870,1672]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,496,1011,1037]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">
<emphasis box="[185,257,1011,1037]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" reason="1">Other</emphasis>
material examined.
</emphasis>
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and
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from four other localities (see Appendix).
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</subSubSection>
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<paragraph blockId="29.[140,1108,870,1672]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,312,1081,1107]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">
<emphasis box="[185,307,1081,1107]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" reason="1">Diagnosis</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Metatergites with three transverse rows of large, low, contiguous tubercles; leg 7 sternal tab with dense brush of stout, rod-like setae; gonopod telopodite with central, flattened process notched into three parts and three comparably sized combs of long, stout, rod-like, setae: distally directed on lateral and anterior surfaces, basally directed on posterior surface.
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<paragraph blockId="29.[140,1108,870,1672]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,335,1257,1283]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">
<emphasis box="[185,330,1257,1283]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="60" reason="1">Description</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Male/female approximate measurements: length 12/
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, ring 12 paranota width 1.5/
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. Live colour not known; in alcohol, uniformly pale yellowish brown.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="29.[140,1108,870,1672]" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">
Most non-gonopod details as for
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<emphasis box="[561,693,1364,1389]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="60">T. armatum</emphasis>
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, but antennomere 3 longest, relative overall widths tergite 6&gt;5&gt;4&gt;(3,2,head)&gt;collum, ring 12 paranota 1.4 × as wide as prozonite, metatergite ca 2.8 × as wide as long, prefemora not as swollen dorsally, leg 6 tarsus 1.3 × as long as femur and femur longer than prefemur. Metatergite almost completely covered with three transverse rows of ca 10 large, low tubercles, each with small seta near posterior edge. Ring 6 sternite with a few fine setae along anterior edge; leg 6 tab short, without setae; leg 7 tab long, thickened, with brush of stout setae. Ring 7 sternite with paired paramedian brushes of fine setae just posterior to gonopod aperture.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[140,252,994,1016]" pageId="30" pageNumber="61">Figure |6.</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[258,448,994,1016]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="61">Tasmaniosoma fragile</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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,
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males.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[668,687,994,1016]" pageId="30" pageNumber="61">A</emphasis>
Posterior view of gonopods in situ (ex QVM 23:46766)
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medial view of left gonopod telopodite, setation omitted for clarity (ex QVM 23:46767). Scale bars =
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. Th e hole at the top of each telopodite is the broken-off tip of the distal extension of the central process.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="30.[140,1108,1152,1671]" pageId="30" pageNumber="61">Gonopod telopodite (Fig. 16) straight, slender, slightly narrowed just above base, divided at ca 2/3 telopodite height into four major processes: (a) short, subcylindrical solenomere arising on medial surface and directed distally; (b) blade-like, acute process arising on anteromedial surface just basal to solenomere origin and directed anterodistally; (c) large central process with posterodistally sloping flat surface, extending medially as round-edged, tab-like structure just posterior to solenomere and extending distally as acute, subcylindrical, posteriorly curving structure; (d) long, blade-like, acute, posterolaterally curving process arising just anterolateral to central process. Three tight clusters of stout, rod-like setae: ca 10 arising on lateral surface just basal to solenomere origin and directed distolaterally, 1520 arising on posterior surface a little basal to lateral cluster and directed posterobasally, and 510 arising on anterolateral surface near apex and directed distally. Sparse fine setae running from posterior surface near base anterodistally along lateral surface to ca 1/2 telopodite height. Prostatic groove running on medial surface directly to solenomere base.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="30.[140,1108,1152,1671]" box="[185,841,1645,1671]" pageId="30" pageNumber="61">Female with legs 2 missing in the three known specimens.</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[185,339,166,192]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="62" reason="1">Distribution</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Known from six localities over ca
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in
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eastern
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up to
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elevation, from Mt Allen close to the east coast at Douglas River to ca
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east of Campbell Town in the Midlands, and south in the Eastern Tiers to the Swansea area (
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). Sympatric with
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<emphasis box="[485,617,273,298]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="62">T. armatum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, co-occurs with
<taxonomicName authority="Mesibov, 2010" authorityName="Mesibov" authorityYear="2010" box="[804,928,272,298]" class="Diplopoda" family="Dalodesmidae" genus="Tasmaniosoma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Polydesmida" pageId="31" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="orientale" status="sp. n.">
<emphasis box="[804,928,272,298]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="62">T. orientale</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[935,996,273,299]" pageId="31" pageNumber="62" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="31" pageNumber="62" type="etymology">
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<emphasis box="[185,315,307,333]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="62" reason="1">Etymology</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Latin
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, “breakable”, adjective. Th e stout, rod-like setae on the gonopod are usually broken. Females are readily distinguished from those of sympatric, similarly sized
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<emphasis box="[357,492,379,404]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="62">T. armatum</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis box="[554,681,378,404]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="62">T. orientale</emphasis>
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by the presence of prominent tubercles on
<taxonomicName authorityName="Mesibov" authorityYear="2010" box="[284,381,413,439]" class="Diplopoda" family="Dalodesmidae" genus="Tasmaniosoma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Polydesmida" pageId="31" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fragile">
<emphasis box="[284,381,413,439]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="62">T. fragile</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
tergites.
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