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Armadillidium granulatum Brandt 1833

  • 1. Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Florence, Italy;
  • 2. Dipartimento di Biologia, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Description

Armadillidium granulatum Brandt, 1833

Armadillidium granulatum; Dollfus, 1896, p. 528; Paulian de Félice, 1939, p. 212; Vandel, 1958a, p. 130; Achouri et al., 2008c, pp. 76–78; Achouri et al., 2008a, p. 129

Material examined

Many ♂♂ and ♀♀, St. 2, under stones at base of cliff, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 1 May 2004 (MZUF 9570).

Previous Rif records

Melilla; Taxdirt and Ixmoart, near Melilla; Sidi Yacoub el Basi, near Peñón de Velez; Tétouan; Benitez, near Ceuta (Vandel 1958a); Oued Laou region (Achouri et al. 2008a, 2008c).

Distribution

Littoral species distributed along the coasts of the Mediterranean, Atlantic coasts of Morocco, Portugal, France, Madeira and the Azores.

Remarks

For diagnostic characters of A. granulatum see Vandel (1962, p. 796, Figure 383).

Notes

Published as part of Taiti, Stefano & Rossano, Claudia, 2015, Terrestrial isopods from the Oued Laou basin, north-eastern Morocco (Crustacea: Oniscidea), with descriptions of two new genera and seven new species, pp. 2067-2138 in Journal of Natural History 49 (33) on pages 2129-2130, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1009512, http://zenodo.org/record/3999869

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MZUF
Material sample ID
MZUF 9570
Event date
2004-05-01
Verbatim event date
2004-05-01
Scientific name authorship
Brandt
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Isopoda
Family
Armadillidiidae
Genus
Armadillidium
Species
granulatum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Armadillidium granulatum Brandt, 1833 sec. Taiti & Rossano, 2015

References

  • Brandt JF. 1833. Conspectus Monographiae Crustaceorum Oniscodorum Latreillii. Bull Soc imp Naturalistes Moscou. 6: 171 - 193, pl. 4.
  • Dollfus A. 1896. Les isopodes terrestres du nord de l' Afrique, du Cap Blanc a Tripoli (Maroc, Algerie, Tunisie, Tripolitaine). Mem Soc Zool France. 9: 523 - 553.
  • Paulian de Felice L. 1939. Recoltes de R. Paulian et A. Villiers dans le Haut Atlas marocain, 1938 (septieme note). Isopodes terrestres. Bull Soc Sci nat Maroc. 19: 191 - 213.
  • Vandel A. 1958 a. Les isopodes terrestres du Rif. Tamuda. 6: 127 - 134.
  • Achouri MS, Medini-Bouaziz L, Hamaied S, Charfi-Cheikhrouha F. 2008 c. Diversity of terrestrial isopods at the Oued Laou region (Northeast of Morocco): preliminary results. In: Bayed A, Ater M, editors. Du Bassin versant vers la mer: analyse multidisciplinaire pour une gestion durable. Trav Inst Sci Rabat (Ser Gen). 5: 75 - 79.
  • Achouri MS, Charfi-Cheikhrouha F, Zimmer M. 2008 a. Reproductive patterns in syntopic terrestrial isopod species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) from Morocco. Pedobiologia. 52: 127 - 137.
  • Vandel A. 1962. Isopodes terrestres (Deuxieme partie). Faune Fr. 66: 417 - 931.