Slater Alloniscus pallidulus Budde-Lund, 1885
Fauna Portal species: 2681
Alloniscus pallidulus male, lateral (HBI N34487-8; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: Alexander Greenhill (2025)
Fauna Portal Image No. 10843Diagnosis
(after Judd & Perina 2013): It's principal diagnostic characters are: uropod exopodites long extending beyond the uropod protopodite; flagellum of second antenna 3-segmented; epimera of pleonites 3–5 long and tapered; and noduli laterales absent.
The identity of A. pallidulus in Australia, originally described from Ambon Island, Indonesia, remains doubtful, as the syntype material seems to be lost (Green et al. 1990). Topotypical material needs to be collected to verify these identifications.
Status
- native
Linnean Syntype(s)
Australia
- Northern Territory
- Western Australia
Neighbouring Countries
- Indonesia
- Papua New Guinea
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1990): Terrestrial Isopoda from the Krakatau Islands, South Sumatra and West Java. Memoirs of the Museum Victoria. 50: 417 - 436DOI
(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