Redescription of Tylos maindroni Giordani Soika, 1954 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) based on SEM and molecular data

By

Khalaji-Pirbalouty, Valiallah
Oraie, Hamzeh
Santamaria, Carlos A.
Wägele, Johann-Wolfgang

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2022-2-23

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1087

Pages

123--139

Subjects

DNA barcoding , haplotype network , Isopoda , Persian Gulf , redescription , SEM

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1087.76668

 

Abstract

The woodlouse species Tylos maindroni Giordani Soika, 1954 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) is redescribed from the Persian Gulf based on light and scanning electron microscopy. This species differs from the closely related T. exiguus Stebbing, 1910, from the Red Sea (coasts of Sudan and Eritrea), and Socotra Island, by pereopod 1 superior margin without a prominent projection and pleopod 2 endopod 2.3 times as long as exopod, vs. 3.6 in T. exiguus. A distribution map for T. maindroni is provided. In addition, we studied the molecular differentiation of five populations of T. maindroni from the Persian Gulf, based on partial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene sequences. The results revealed low levels of population structuring between the analyzed populations.