Atlantasellus
Appearance
Atlantasellus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Isopoda |
Suborder: | Microcerberidea |
Family: | Atlantasellidae Sket, 1979 [2] |
Genus: | Atlantasellus Sket, 1979 [1] |
Species | |
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Atlantasellus is a genus of crustaceans, and the only member of the family Atlantasellidae.[2] It contains these species:
- Atlantasellus cavernicolus is endemic to Bermuda and is included on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered.[3]
- Atlantasellus dominicanus was described in 2001, having been collected in coastal karsts in the Dominican Republic.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Atlantasellus Sket, 1979". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
- ^ a b "Atlantasellidae Sket, 1979". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
- ^ Iliffe, T.M. (1996). "Atlantasellus cavernicolus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T2355A9435213. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T2355A9435213.en.
- ^ Damià Jaume (2001). "A new atlantasellid isopod (Asellota: Aselloidea) from the flooded coastal karst of the Dominican Republic (Hispaniola): evidence for an exopod on a thoracic limb and biogeographical implications". Journal of Zoology. 255 (2): 221–233. doi:10.1017/S0952836901001297.