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Issue: Vol. 4196 No. 2: 22 Nov. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-11-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.2.8
Page range: 296–300
Abstract views: 114
PDF downloaded: 4

A new cave-dwelling species of the genus Mesoiulus Berlese, 1886 (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae) from Turkey

Institute of Zoology, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Biology, Studentski Trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Art and Science, Suleyman Demirel University, 32260 Çünür, Isparta, Turkey.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Art and Science, Suleyman Demirel University, 32260 Çünür, Isparta, Turkey.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Art and Science, Suleyman Demirel University, 32260 Çünür, Isparta, Turkey.
Myriapoda Mesoiulus new species caves Turkey

Abstract

A new cave-dwelling species of the poorly defined genus Mesoiulus Berlese, 1886, M. taurus sp. nov., is described from the Zindan Cave, Isparta, Western Taurides, Turkey. A brief discussion of the relationship between M. taurus sp. nov. and the most similar species (M. ciliciensis Strasser, 1975) is presented, as well as a map showing the distribution of the genus Mesoiulus in Turkey.

 

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