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Issue: Vol. 4388 No. 3: 5 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.3.7
Page range: 417–424
Abstract views: 59
PDF downloaded: 1

Cyrtodesmus baerti, n. sp., a cryptic millipede from the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Cyrtodesmidae)

Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney VA, 23943 USA.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa ON, K1S 5B6 Canada.
Myriapoda Cyrtodesmidae new species Galápagos Ecuador

Abstract

Cyrtodesmus baerti, n. sp., previously reported from the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, as Cyrtodesmus sp., is described, together with notes on the systematics, natural history and morphology of cyrotdesmid millipedes.

 

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