Javidkar et al . 2015 : 567
Taxonomy of Paraplatyarthrus Javidkar and King (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Paraplatyarthridae) with description of five new species from Western Australia, and comments on Australian Trichorhina Budde-Lunde, 1908 (Platyarthridae)
Javidkar, Mohammad
King, Rachael A.
Cooper, Steven J. B.
Humphreys, William F.
Austin, Andrew D.
Zootaxa
2017
4243
3
401
431
4D8WQ
Javidkar and King, 2015
Javidkar and King
2015
[151,840,1746,1772]
Malacostraca
Paraplatyarthridae
Paraplatyarthrus
GBIF,CoL
Animalia
Isopoda
23
424
Arthropoda
species
subterraneus
Paraplatyarthrus subterraneusJavidkar and King, in Javidkar et al. 2015: 567.
Typematerial. Holotype: Male, WAMC53623 (BES15525.19), Laverton Downs Windarracalcrete, EasternMurchison region, WesternAustralia, Australia; 28.50282°S, 122.17726°E, 13 July 2010, coll. W.F. Humphreys& S.J.B. Cooper, deposited in the WesternAustralian Museum. FIGURE 19. Paraplatyarthrus pallidus sp. nov., (Holotype, ♂), A, pleopod 1 endopodite and genital papilla; B, pleopod 1 exopodite; C, pleopod 2 endopodite; D, pleopod 2 exopodite; E, pleopod 3 exopodite; F, pleopod 4 exopodite; G, pleopod 5 exopodite. Scale bars: 0.1 mm. Paratypes: 5 males (WAM C53624, BES15525.24; WAM C53625, BES15525.16; WAM C53626, BES15525.12; WAM C53627, BES15525.2; WAM C53628, BES15525.3), 1 female (WAM C53629, BES15525.4), BES15525.20 held on SEM stubs (sex unknown); same locality and collectors’ as holotype, all deposited in the Western Australian Museum.
Diagnosis. Body pale without pigmentation. Eyeless (no ommatidia) ( Fig. 2H).
Remarks. Paraplatyarthrus subterraneusis distinguished from other described Paraplatyarthrusspecies with a combination of characters including a pale body with no pigmentation, no ommatidia in cephalothorax and a delimiting line in maxilla 2. The body length varies between 3.0 and 3.8 mm. It is restricted to a single calcrete aquifer, Laverton Downs, EasternMurchison region, Western Australia.
1440156641
WAM
Laverton Downs Windarra
23
424
2
Eastern
holotype
1440156628
[365,685,1955,1980]
Australia
Western Australia
23
424
1
Western Australia
holotype
1440156632
2010-07-13
W. F. Humphreys & S. J. B. Cooper
Australia
-28.50282
Western
1
122.17726
23
424
1
Western
holotype