Published February 17, 2023 | Version v1
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Eluma Budde-Lund 1885

  • 1. Departamento de Biología (Zoología), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Cantoblanco, Madrid, España.
  • 2. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto-InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Campus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal. & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal.

Description

Key to the species of the genus Eluma

The genus Eluma currently includes four species that can be distinguished with the help of the following dichotomic key:

1. Integuments without hair like structures and with granulations ............... E. tuberculata Cruz, 1991

– Integuments with hair like structures and without granulations …................................................... 2

2. Male pereopod 7 with protrusions on ischium and merus ........................... E. caelata (Miers, 1877)

– Male pereopod 7 with protrusions only on ischium ......................................................................... 3

3. Integuments with scale-setae long and triangular, male exopod I with short and rounded inner tip. ..................................................................................................... E. praticola Taiti & Rossano, 2015

– Integuments with scale-setae long triangular, rectangular and mace shaped, male exopod I with long and sickle shaped inner tip ...................................................................................... E. matae sp. nov.

Notes

Published as part of Cifuentes, Julio & Da Silva, Luis P., 2023, The genus Eluma in the Iberian Peninsula, with the description of a new terrestrial isopod: Eluma matae sp. nov. (Oniscidea, Armadillidiidae, Eluminae), pp. 27-41 in European Journal of Taxonomy 860 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.860.2047, http://zenodo.org/record/7650986

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Budde-Lund
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Isopoda
Family
Armadillidiidae
Genus
Eluma
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Eluma Budde-Lund, 1885 sec. Cifuentes & Silva, 2023

References

  • Cruz A. 1991. Especies nuevas o poco conocidas de isopodos terrestres de la Peninsula Iberica. II. Isopodos epigeos de Espana y Portugal (Crustacea, Oniscidea). Bulletin de la Societe d'Histoire naturelle de Toulouse 127: 71 - 75.
  • Miers E. 1877. On a collection of Crustacea, Decapoda and Isopoda, chiefly from South America, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 653 - 679, pls 66 - 69. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 28518607 [accessed 18 Jan. 2023].
  • 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