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Issue: Vol. 1325 No. 1: 28 Sept. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-09-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1325.1.24
Page range: 363–368
Abstract views: 80
PDF downloaded: 3

Review of the Southeast Asian millipede genus Pacidesmus Golovatch, with the description of a new troglobitic species from southern China (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Polydesmidae)

Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Écologie & Gestion de la Biodiversité, EA3778-USM306 Réseaux Trophiques du Sol, 4, avenue du Petit Château, Brunoy F-91800, France
Arthropoda Taxonomy Guizhou Province

Abstract

The genus Pacidesmus is briefly reviewed, with all of its three species keyed, including the clearly troglobitic P. martensi sp. n. from two caves in Guizhou Province, China.

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