Atlantasellus
| Atlantasellus | |
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| 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 | |
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Atlantasellus is a genus of crustaceans, and the only member of the family Atlantasellidae.[1] It contains these 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 2 "Atlantasellidae Sket, 1979". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
- ↑ "Atlantasellus Sket, 1979". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
- ↑ T. M. Iliffe (1996). "Atlantasellus cavernicolus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
- ↑ 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.
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