Halophiloscia couchii ( Kinahan, 1858 )

Taiti, Stefano & Rossano, Claudia, 2015, Terrestrial isopods from the Oued Laou basin, north-eastern Morocco (Crustacea: Oniscidea), with descriptions of two new genera and seven new species, Journal of Natural History 49 (33), pp. 2067-2138 : 2076-2077

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1009512
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4337184
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scientific name	Halophiloscia couchii ( Kinahan, 1858 )
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Halophiloscia couchii ( Kinahan, 1858) View in CoL

Philoscia couchii ; Dollfus, 1896, p. 548

Philoscia Couchii View in CoL ; Paulian de Félice, 1939, p. 192

Halophiloscia couchi ; Vandel, 1958a p. 128

Halophiloscia couchii ; Taiti and López, 2008, p. 44, Figures 1A–C View Figure 1 , 8A,B View Figure 8 , 9 View Figure 9

Material examined

10 ♂♂, 21 ♀♀, St. 1, under debris on beach, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 28 September 2005 ( MZUF 9457 View Materials , 9458 View Materials ) ; 7 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀, St. 5, beach under stones, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 1 May 2004 ( MZUF 9459 View Materials ) .

Previous Rif records

Melilla, Mar Chica ( Vandel 1958a); Oued Laou ( Taiti and López 2008).

Distribution

Coasts of the Atlantic Ocean from Senegal to the British Isles, Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Mediterranean and Black Sea. Introduced to North and South America, Hawaii and Australia.

Remarks

For diagnostic characters of H. couchii see Schmidt (2003, Figures 52–57) and Taiti and López (2008, p. 44, Figures 1A–C View Figure 1 , 8A,B View Figure 8 ).

References

Dollfus A. 1896. Les isopodes terrestres du nord de l' Afrique, du Cap Blanc a Tripoli (Maroc, Algerie, Tunisie, Tripolitaine). Mem Soc Zool France. 9: 523 - 553.

Kinahan JR. 1858. On the genera Philoscia (Latreille); Itea (Koch); Pilougria (Kinahan); comprising descriptions of new British species. Nat Hist Rev. 5: 194 - 200, pl. 23.

Paulian de Felice L. 1939. Recoltes de R. Paulian et A. Villiers dans le Haut Atlas marocain, 1938 (septieme note). Isopodes terrestres. Bull Soc Sci nat Maroc. 19: 191 - 213.

Schmidt C. 2003. Contribution to the phylogenetic system of the Crinocheta (Crustacea, Isopoda). Part 2 (Oniscoidea to Armadillidiidae). Mitt Mus Naturk Berlin, Zool Reihe. 79: 3 - 179.

Taiti S, Lopez H. 2008. New records and species of Halophilosciidae (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) from the Canary Islands (Spain). In: Zimmer M, Charfi Cheikhrouha F, Taiti S, editors. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Terrestrial Isopod Biology - ISTIB- 07. Aachen: Shaker-Verlag; p. 43 - 58.

Vandel A. 1958 a. Les isopodes terrestres du Rif. Tamuda. 6: 127 - 134.

Figures

Figure 1. Trichoniscus microphthalmus sp. nov. from St. 8, paratype ♀: (A) adult specimen, dorsal view; (B) dorsal scale-seta; (C) cephalon, frontal view; (D) pleonite 5, telson and left uropod; (E) antennule; (F) antenna; (G) right mandible; (H) left mandible.

Figure 8. Ctenoscia minima from St. 14, ♂: (A) pereopod 1; (B) pereopod 7; (C) pleopod 1 (specimen 4.5 mm long); (D) genital papilla and pleopod 1 (specimen 4.0 mm long); (E) pleopod 2; (F) pleopod 3 exopod; (G) pleopod 4 exopod; (H) pleopod 5 exopod.

Figure 9. Paractenoscia cavernicola sp. nov. from St. 8, paratype ♀: (A) adult specimen, dorsal view; (B) dorsal scale-seta; (C) co-ordinates of noduli laterals; (D) cephalon, dorsal view; (E) cephalon, frontal view; (F) right side of pereon showing disposition of noduli laterales; (G) pleonites 3–5, telson and uropods; (H) antennule; (I) antenna.