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Issue: Vol. 2439 No. 1: 28 Apr. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-04-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2439.1.3
Page range: 35–52
Abstract views: 92
PDF downloaded: 36

Two new species of the genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Amphipoda, fam. Niphargidae) from the Frasassi cave system in Central Italy

Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, Podgorica, Crna Gora (Montenegro)
Dept. of Biology, Nassau Community College, Garden City, New York, 11530, USA
Centre of Geobiology, Georg-August University, Gottingen, Germany
Crustacea Amphipoda Niphargus taxonomy subterranean waters

Abstract

Two new subterranean species of the genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Niphargus montanarius, n. sp. and N. frasassianus, n. sp. (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridea, Niphargidae) from the Frasassi cave system in Genga, the Marches, Italy, are described and figured, and their taxonomic status within the genus Niphargus is discussed.

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