Atlantasellus

Atlantasellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Microcerberidea
Family: Atlantasellidae
Sket, 1979 [1]
Genus: Atlantasellus
Sket, 1979 [2]
Species
  • Atlantasellus cavernicolus Sket, 1979
  • Atlantasellus dominicanus Jaume, 2001

Atlantasellus is a genus of crustaceans, and the only member of the family Atlantasellidae.[1] It contains the following species:

Atlantasellus cavernicolus is endemic to Bermuda and is included on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered.[3]

Atlantasellus dominicanus was described in 2001, having been collected in coastal karsts in the Dominican Republic.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Atlantasellidae Sket, 1979". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=541896. Retrieved August 29, 2011. 
  2. ^ "Atlantasellus Sket, 1979". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=542000. Retrieved August 29, 2011. 
  3. ^ T. M. Iliffe (1996). "Atlantasellus cavernicolus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/2355. Retrieved June 6, 2010. 
  4. ^ Damià Jaume (2001). "A new atlantasellid isopod (Asellota: Aselloidea) from the flooded coastal karst of the Dominican Republic (Hispaniola): evidence for an exopod on a thoracic limb and biogeographical implications". Journal of Zoology 255 (2): 221–233. doi:10.1017/S0952836901001297.