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Soteriscus Taiti & Rossano 2015, gen. nov.

Creators

  • 1. Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Florence, Italy;
  • 2. Dipartimento di Biologia, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Description

Genus Soteriscus gen. nov.

Type species: Soteriscus gaditanus Vandel, 1956b by present designation

Remarks

Soteriscus was erected by Vandel (1956b) as a subgenus of Metoponorthus Budde- Lund, 1879 (junior synonym of Porcellionides) to accommodate four species: Metoponorthus (Soteriscus) stricticauda Dollfus, 1893 from the Canary Islands; Metoponorthus (Soteriscus) wollastoni Paulian de Félice, 1939 from Madera Island; Metoponorthus (Soteriscus) fuscovariegatus (Lucas, 1849) from Algeria; and the new species Metoponorthus (Soteriscus) gaditanus from south-western Spain and northwestern Morocco. No type species for the subgenus Soteriscus was selected neither by Vandel (1956b), nor by Vandel and Matsakis (1959) when the subgenus was elevated to genus rank, nor in any other subsequent publication dealing with this genus. Thus, according to article 13.3 of ICZN (1999), the name is unavailable (see also Schmidt and Leistikow 2004). In order to revalidate the genus we designate here Metoponorthus (Soteriscus) gaditanus as type species of the genus Soteriscus. For the diagnosis of the genus see Vandel (1960b).

Notes

Published as part of Taiti, Stefano & Rossano, Claudia, 2015, Terrestrial isopods from the Oued Laou basin, north-eastern Morocco (Crustacea: Oniscidea), with descriptions of two new genera and seven new species, pp. 2067-2138 in Journal of Natural History 49 (33) on pages 2096-2099, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1009512, http://zenodo.org/record/3999869

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Biodiversity

Family
Porcellionidae
Genus
Soteriscus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Isopoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Taiti & Rossano
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Soteriscus Taiti & Rossano, 2015

References

  • Vandel A. 1956 b. Sur un nouveau sous-genre de Metoponorthus et son interet biogeographique (Crustaces; Isopodes terrestres). Rev Fr Entomol. 23: 21 - 30.
  • Dollfus A. 1893. Voyage de M. CH. Alluaud aux Iles Canaries (novembre 1889 - juin 1890). Isopodes terrestres. Mem Soc Zool Fr. 6: 46 - 56.
  • Paulian de Felice L. 1939. Recoltes de R. Paulian et A. Villiers dans le Haut Atlas marocain, 1938 (septieme note). Isopodes terrestres. Bull Soc Sci nat Maroc. 19: 191 - 213.
  • Lucas H. 1849. Premiere Classe. Crustaces. Troisieme Famille. Les Cloportide. In: Exploration scientifique de l' Algerie, pendant les annees 1840, 1841, 1842. Sci Phys, Zool. 1: 67 - 73, pls. 6, 7.
  • Vandel A, Matsakis J. 1959. Biometrie. - Sur l' application des methodes biometriques a la recherche des affinites entre groupes zoologiques. C R Hebd Acad Sci. 248: 336 - 340.
  • ICZN. 1999. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 4 th ed. London: The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature; p. xxix + 306.
  • Schmidt C, Leistikow A. 2004. Catalogue of genera of the terrestrial Isopoda (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea). Steenstrupia. 28: 1 - 118.
  • Vandel A. 1960 b. Les isopodes terrestres de l' Archipel Maderien. Mem Mus natl Hist nat Paris, Ser A. 22: 1 - 155.