Barrow Island Barrowdillo Barrowdillo pseudopyrgoniscus Dalens, 1993
Fauna Portal species: 2666
Barrowdillo pseudopyrgoniscus, lateral (WAM C51704)
Image: Judd & Perina (2013; fig. 22)
Fauna Portal Image No. 1868Australia
- Western Australia
Distribution
(after Judd & Perina 2013): Its principal diagnostic characters are: flagellum of second antenna 2 segmented; pleopod exopodites interlocking with pleopod 5 covered by pleopod 4; dorsal surface convex but with horizontal epimera; and schisma on posterior corner of pereonite 1 absent but with large tooth-like ventral lobe on pereonites 1 and 2.
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1993): Two new genera of terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea) from north-western Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum. 16: 257 - 267
(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