Tasmaniosoma bruniense (lat.) Is a type of two-legged centipedes from the family Dalodesmidae of the order of polybond (Polydesmida). Endemic of Tasmania ( Australia ). They are found on ( Bruni Island) near the southeastern coast of the island [1] .
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Description
The length of the females is 13 mm (males - 14 mm), width is about 2 mm. Brown. They live in the bedding of the eucalyptus forest. The body consists of 19 segments (in juvenile individuals less). Metatergites without tubercles. Tergites in the middle part of the body approximately twice as wide as its length. Dorsal groove is absent. The head is large and rounded; there is no eye. Telopods look like normal legs. From the close species, Tasmaniosoma warra , with which it is probably sympatric, it differs in the structure of the hetitaly, in the presence of small rounded posterolateral teeth on the paraotos and the teeth on the posterior margins of the metatergites. The species was first described in 2010 by Australian zoologist Robert Mesibov ( Robert Mesibov , Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston , Tasmania , Australia ) and named for Bruny Island, where the type series was discovered [1] [2] .
Notes
- 2 1 2 3 Mesibov, R. 2010: The millipede genus Tasmaniosoma Verhoeff, 1936 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia, with descriptions of 18 new species. ZooKeys, 41: 31-80. doi: 10.3897 / zookeys.41.420
- ↑ Verhoeff, KW 1936. Sphaerotrichopidae der Südlichen Halbkugel und ihre Beziehungen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 114 (1/2): 1-14 [11].
Literature
- Hoffman RL (1980). ['1979'] Classification of the Diplopoda. - Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève. - 237 pp.
- Jeekel, Casimir Albrecht Willem. (1971). Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957, Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging, 5: 1-412.
- Mesibov, R. (2010). The millipede genus Tasmaniosoma Verhoeff, 1936 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia, with descriptions of 18 new species. - ZooKeys, 41: 31-80. doi: 10.3897 / zookeys.41.420
Links
- Polydesmida: Tasmaniosoma (English) . Millipedes of Tasmania . polydesmida.info. The appeal date is August 10, 2013. (Photos)
- Polydesmida: Checklist and classification of species (English) . Millipedes of Tasmania . polydesmida.info. The appeal date is August 10, 2013.
- Genus Tasmaniosoma Verhoeff, 1936 - Australian Faunal Directory (inaccessible link)
- Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae: Tasmaniosoma species. Systematic catalog of native genera and species . Millipedes of Australia . polydesmida.info. The appeal date is August 10, 2013.
- Tasmaniosoma Verhoeff, 1936