Echinodillo cavaticus

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Echinodillo cavaticus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Armadillidae
Genus: Echinodillo
Species:
E. cavaticus
Binomial name
Echinodillo cavaticus
Green, 1963  [2]

Echinodillo cavaticus, the Flinders Island cave slater, is a species of woodlouse in the family Armadillidae. It is endemic to caves on Flinders Island, Tasmania. [3]

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References

  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Echinodillo cavaticus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . Retrieved 2007-08-09.
  2. "Echinodillo cavaticus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  3. "Echinodillo cavaticus Green, 1963". Australian Faunal Directory . Department of the Environment and Water Resources . Retrieved 2007-08-26.