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ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 463-483Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s13127-013-0124-8
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New species; Terrestrial isopods; Brazil; Neotropics
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- CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico) [MCT/CNPq/MEC/CAPES/PROTAX 562202/2010-2]
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The neotropical genus Atlantoscia Ferrara & Taiti, 1981 includes three species, A. floridana Van Name, 1940, occurring in coastal regions of Florida (USA), Brazil, Argentina, and Ascension and Saint Helena islands, A. rubromarginata Araujo & Leistikow, 1999 and A. petronioi Campos-Filho, Contreira and Lopes-Leitzke, 2012 from Brazil. Two new species from Brazil are here described, one from the state of Bahia and one from the state of So Paulo. All the new species have respiratory areas on pleopods 1-5 exopods. The specimens were collected in areas of Atlantic Forest and in cocoa (Theobroma cacao) plantations. New records of A. floridana and A. rubromarginata and distribution maps are presented.
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