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

Halophiloscia couchii ( Kinahan, 1858)

Philoscia couchii ; Dollfus, 1896, p. 548

Philoscia Couchii ; Paulian de Félice, 1939, p. 192

Halophiloscia couchi ; Vandel, 1958a p. 128

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

Material examined

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

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 , 8A,B ).

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.