| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Authors: | W. Liu, Golovatch S. Ilyich |
| Journal: | The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Pagination: | 78-87 |
| Date Published: | 31/03/2020 |
| ISSN: | 021-2445 |
| Keywords: | Cave, new record, new species, Pacidesmus, southern China, subterranean biology |
| Abstract: | Three new species of Pacidesmus are described from caves in southern China: P. whitteni, new species, from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, P. trilobatus, new species, and P. uncatus, new species, the latter two from Yunnan Province. The three new species differ from the most similar congeners mainly in certain details of gonopodal structure. Additional records of P. bifidus, P. martensi and P. sinensis are also presented. The genus is thus composed of a single high-montane forest-dwelling species in northern Thailand at present, as well as another 11 species, all presumed troglobionts from southern China. |
| URL: | https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/app/uploads/2020/03/s35rbz78-87.pdf |
| DOI: | 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0040 |
| Citation Key: | 935 |
| Refereed Designation: | Refereed |
Taxonomic name:
Diplopoda (Taxonomy), Polydesmida (Taxonomy), Polydesmidae (Taxonomy), Pacidesmus (Taxonomy), Pacidesmus armatus (Taxonomy), Pacidesmus bedosae (Taxonomy), Pacidesmus bifidus (Taxonomy), Pacidesmus martensi (Taxonomy), Pacidesmus shelleyi (Taxonomy), Pacidesmus sinensis (Taxonomy), Pacidesmus superdraco (Taxonomy), Pacidesmus tiani (Taxonomy), Pacidesmus trifidus (Taxonomy), Pacidesmus trilobatus (Taxonomy), Pacidesmus uncatus (Taxonomy), Pacidesmus whitteni (Taxonomy), Polydesmus hamatus (Taxonomy), Epanerchodus sinensis (Taxonomy), Polydesmus guizhouensis (Taxonomy)