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TROPICAL ZOOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 9-33Publisher
PAGEPRESS PUBL
DOI: 10.1080/03946975.2014.894397
Keywords
Crustacea; Isopoda; Oniscidea; new genus; new species; Maldive Islands
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Twenty-seven species of terrestrial isopods are recorded from the Maldive Islands (North Kaafu Atoll and Vaavu Atoll). One genus (Eubelinum) in the family Eubelidae and three species (Styloniscus maldivensis, Eubelinum incertum, and Pseudodiploexochus indicus) are described as new, and 26 species are newly recorded from the archipelago. Ligia dentipes Budde-Lund, 1885 is also recorded from Sri Lanka and Seychelles. The poorly known species Tylos albidus Budde-Lund, 1885 and Platyarthrus acropyga Chopra, 1924 are also illustrated. The composition and origin of the oniscidean fauna of the Maldives are briefly discussed.
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