Niphargus denarius Karaman G.S., 2017

Ntakis, Alexandros, Karaouzas, Ioannis, Fišer, Cene & Stoch, Fabio, 2020, An annotated checklist of the Niphargidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of Greece, Zootaxa 4772 (3), pp. 517-544 : 528

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.5

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F1A70B05-FE1B-4DB2-A7DE-C19F4C07EE66

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3856724

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2E6387BA-FFDF-1D0D-978D-FBADEEA570B1

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scientific name

Niphargus denarius Karaman G.S., 2017
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Niphargus denarius Karaman G.S., 2017 View in CoL

Taxonomy:

Published records: Karaman G.S. (2017b).

Distribution: Endemic to Greece: Kefalonia Island (IO).

Type material: Holotype: male 15 mm, G-2 (G-61), Cephalonia, loc. Efimia (Crini), 08.05.1977, 15exp. (leg. G. Pesce),. Paratype: female 9.5 mm, data same as for holotype, (leg. G. Pesce) . Holotype and paratype are deposited temporarily in KCPM .

Remarks: Known so far from Kefalonia Island and its ecology is unknown.

Etymology: The specific name denarius should allude to the shape of old Roman money “denarius”, according to the subrounded epimeral plates of the species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Amphipoda

Family

Niphargidae

Genus

Niphargus

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