Kimberleydillo

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Kimberleydillo
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Armadillidae
Genus: Kimberleydillo
Dalens, 1993
Species:
K. waldockae
Binomial name
Kimberleydillo waldockae
Dalens, 1993

Kimberleydillo is a genus of woodlice belonging to the family Armadillidae. This genus was described in 1993 by Henri Dalens. The type specimen for this species is a Kimberleydillo waldockae from Tunnel Creek cave in Western Australia and it is the only species in this genus. [1] [2]

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Description

Kimberleydillo isopods have a flattened body with no ventral lobes. They are not able to conglobate. [2] [3] . The flagellum of their antennae are two-jointed. They have five pairs of pseudotracheae. Their uropod protopodite is flattened and situated between the sides of their telson and epimera of pleon segment 5. Their telson has a trapezoidal proximal part and a subrectangular distal part [2] .

They have black eyes made up of 13 to 16 ommatidia [2] .

Kimberleydillo are visually similar to Australiodillo and Neodillo but are differentiated by their dorsal surface being regularly curved, while the margins are more or less extended horizontally in Australiodillo and Neodillo [2] .

Distribution

Kimberleydillo have only been found in Western Australia [4] . They are known only from the dark zone of a cave [2] .

Etymology

This species is named after the type locality, Kimberley (Western Australia) plus the common isopod suffix "-dillo".

Species

References

  1. ↑ "World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans - Kimberleydillo Dalens, 1993". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2026-01-13.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Dalens, Henri (1993). "Two new genera of terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea) from north-western Western Australia" (PDF). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 16 (2): 257–267.
  3. ↑ Taiti, Stefano; Paoli, Pasquino; Ferrera, Franco (1998). "Morphology, biogeography, and ecology of the family Armadillidae (Crustacea, Oniscidea)". Israel Journal of Zoology. 44 (3): 291–301. doi:10.1080/00212210.1998.10688952.
  4. ↑ Schmalfuss, Helmut (2003). World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A, Nr. p. 117.
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