Colomboniscus VANDEL 1972
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Description
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’.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00286.x (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5430080 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFBCFFE1423CFFEA9B757A7FA96EFFB6 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/038587994229FFFF9A6B7FD0AD6CFDC8 (URL)
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.