Eleoniscus

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Eleoniscus
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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

  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. 1 2 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.