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Mystery Indohya Indohya silenda Harvey & Burger, 2023

Fauna Portal species: 13843
Family: Hyidae



Diagnosis

(after Harvey et al. 2023): Indohya silenda is a blind troglobite that differs from all other Indohya species for which sequence data are available by a synapomorphy in COI mtDNA: at base 538 there is a substitution to G. The single sequenced specimen differs from all other sequenced specimens of Indohya by 16.5–26.2%.

Status

  • native

Linnean Holotype

juvenile
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Western Australian Museum
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T140487
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7 April 2020
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Australia
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Western Australia
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Western Ridge, ca. 5 km SW. of Newman
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troglofauna trap, 20 m

Australia

  • Western Australia

Fauna Portal Records

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Publications

Harvey MS, Burger MAA, Abrams KM, Finston TL, Huey JA, Perina G (2023): The systematics of the pseudoscorpion genus Indohya (Pseudoscorpiones: Hyidae) in Australia. Zootaxa. 5342: 1 - 119DOI


Volker Framenau, 06 September 2025