Barrow Island Slater
Barrowdillo
FP-334 (BWI sp. 1)
Discoverer: S. Judd (2013)
Fauna Portal species: 334
Barrowdillo FP-334, lateral (WAM C51818; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: Judd & Perina (2013; fig. 23)
Fauna Portal Image No. 1879Diagnosis
(after Judd & Perina 2013): The principal diagnostic characters are: pleopod exopodites interlocking with pleopod 5 covered by pleopod 4; schisma absent on pereonite 1, but interlocking structures present in the form of a tooth-like inner lobe on ventral surface of epimera 1 and 2; distal part of uropod protopodite longer than broad and tapering; and body with dorsal surface convex and epimera tending horizontal at the margins.
This was previously place in 'Armadillidae genus 2' with close affinities to Barrowdillo (Judd & Perina 2013) but molecular data suggest this to be a species of Barrowdillo pending a revision and proper diagnosis of the genus.
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2013): An illustrated key to the morphospecies of terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea) of Barrow Island, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement. 83: 185 - 207