Biology:Eluma

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Short description: Genus of woodlice

Eluma
Eluma caelata (10.3897-zookeys.801.21894) Figure 5 (cropped).jpg
Eluma caelata
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Armadillidiidae
Genus: Eluma
Budde-Lund, 1885

Eluma is a genus of woodlice in the family Armadillidiidae. The members of this genus are native to the Iberian Peninsula, Morocco, the Atlantic islands of the Azores, Canaries and Madeira, and from the west of France to the British Isles.[1][2]

Species

  • Eluma caelata (Miers, 1878) — Western Europe, Macaronesia.
  • Eluma matae Cifuentes & Da Silva, 2023 — Portugal
  • Eluma praticola Taiti & Rossano, 2015 — Morocco
  • Eluma tuberculata Cruz, 1991 — Portugal

References

  1. Cifuentes, Julio; da Silva, Luis P. (2023). "The genus Eluma in the Iberian Peninsula, with the description of a new terrestrial isopod: Eluma matae sp. nov. (Oniscidea, Armadillidiidae, Eluminae)" (in en). European Journal of Taxonomy (860): 27–41. doi:10.5852/ejt.2023.860.2047. ISSN 2118-9773. 
  2. Reboleira, Ana Sofia P.S.; Goncalves, Fernando; Oromí, Pedro; Taiti, Stefano (2015). "The cavernicolous Oniscidea (Crustacea: Isopoda) of Portugal". European Journal of Taxonomy (161). doi:10.5852/ejt.2015.161. 

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