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Colomboniscus VANDEL 1972

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Description

COLOMBONISCUS VANDEL, 1972

Type species: Colomboniscus regressus Vandel, 1972 (by monotypy).

Diagnosis

Endoantennal conglobation. Very small: maximum 3.5 mm. Integument smooth, with very fine and short ‘hairs’. Eye reduced, represented only by a spot of pigment without lens, or entirely absent. Cephalothorax rounded, without any rectangular corner. Pleotelson rounded, with straight sides. Flagellum of second antenna three-jointed, and very slender. All coxal plates simple. Noduli laterales small, on the hind margins of the tergites.

Remark

Vandel (1972) defined this genus by its ‘numerous regressive traits’.

Notes

Published as part of Schmidt, Christian, 2007, Revision of the Neotropical Scleropactidae (Crustacea: Oniscidea), pp. 1-339 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151 on page 22, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00286.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5430080

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
VANDEL
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Isopoda
Family
Scleropactidae
Genus
Colomboniscus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Colomboniscus VANDEL, 1972 sec. Schmidt, 2007

References

  • Vandel A. 1972. Les isopodes terrestres de la Colombie. Studies on the Neotropical Fauna 7: 147 - 172.