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Paractenoscia Taiti & Rossano 2015
Authors/Creators
- 1. MUCBO-Museu Balear de Ciències Naturals, Sóller (Mallorca), Balearic Islands, Spain & Interdisciplinary Ecology Group, University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- 2. Servei de Fauna i Flora, Departament de Territori, Habitatge i Transició Ecològica, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
- 3. Departament de Biologia Animal (Zoologia), Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Description
Genus
ParactenosciaTaiti & Rossano, 2015Type species.
Paractenoscia cavernicola (Taiti and Rossano 2015, p. 2082–2086; figs 9–11), by monotipy and original designation.
Diagnosis.
Cephalon with suprantennal line, lacking frontal line; first antenna with fusiform aesthetascs; no visible gland pores on tergites; one line of small noduli laterales per side; pleon distinctly narrower than pereon with epimera adpressed; pleotelson semi-circular; mandibles with completely dichotomized molar penicils and with scales; maxillule with pectinate teeth; maxilliped endite without penicil; pleopods without lungs; and uropods with endopod and exopod inserted almost at the same level (see also Taiti and Rossano 2015, p. 2081–2082).
Notes
Published as part of Garcia, Lluc, Miralles-Núñez, Adrià & Cruz-Suárez, Antonio, 2026, Subterranean Philosciidae from Spain with the description of a new genus and two new species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea), pp. 1-28 in Subterranean Biology 56 on pages 1-28, DOI: 10.3897/subtbiol.56.180999
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Taiti & Rossano
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Isopoda
- Family
- Philosciidae
- Genus
- Paractenoscia
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paractenoscia Taiti, 2015 sec. Garcia, Miralles-Núñez & Cruz-Suárez, 2026
References
- Taiti S, Rossano C (2015) Terrestrial isopods from the Oued Laou basin, north-eastern Morocco (Crustacea: Oniscidea), with descriptions of two new genera and seven new species. Journal of Natural History 49 (33–34): 2067–2138. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1009512