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Eleoniscus

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Eleoniscus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Armadillidiidae
Genus: Eleoniscus
Racovitza, 1907 [1]
Species:
E. helenae
Binomial name
Eleoniscus helenae
Racovitza, 1907

Eleoniscus is a genus of the small terrestrial crustaceans known as woodlice. It includes one species, Eleoniscus helenae, which is endemic to Alicante province, Spain,[2] where it is known from two caves.[3] It may have been extirpated from one of the two caves (the species' type location) through the increasing urbanisation of the Macizo de Montgó.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Eleoniscus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. ^ Helmut Schmalfuss (2003). "World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) — revised and updated version" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A. 654: 341 pp. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-24. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
  3. ^ a b Jordi Domingo Calabuig, Sergio Montagud Alario & Alberto Sendra Mocholí (2007). "Eleoniscus helenae". Invertebrados endémicos de la comunitat Valenciana (in Spanish). Generalitat Valenciana. p. 109. ISBN 978-84-482-4247-3.