Armadillidium album Dollfus, 1887
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.1.4 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7F924C76-CE6D-4F31-9020-400800FAE279 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13685720 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038E862E-447A-FF99-FF0D-4903FEB608AB |
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Armadillidium album Dollfus, 1887 |
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Armadillidium album Dollfus, 1887 View in CoL
Material examined
Spain • 5 specs; Asturias, Gozón, Xagó beach ; 43º36′35.15′′ N, 5º54′50.49′′ W; 1 m a.s.l.; 10 Oct. 2021; J. Robla leg.; hand collected under logs and trunks in the sand, 10–30 m far from the coastline; CLLG. Population first photographed by César Fernández and Rafael González in Mar. 2013 GoogleMaps .
Remarks and ecology
Halophilous species well distributed along the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Europe and northern Africa. A. album has barely been recorded in the Iberian Peninsula and was only known from Almería ( Cruz 1993), A Coruña (Galicia) and Valencia ( Garcia 2005) and Mallorca (Balearic Islands) ( Garcia et al. 2003) in Spain and several districts of Portugal ( Dias et al. 2005; Gonçalves et al. 2009). Here we provided the first records of A. album for Asturias and expanded the distribution in the north of the Iberian Peninsula ( Fig. 1A, 1D View FIGURE 1 ). Many specimens were located under the trunks and logs at the beginning of the dunar system and from 10 to 30 meters far from the coastline and along the entire beach. Specimens were always found attached to the inner side of the trunks and logs, but also directly on the sand or close to the only plant species present in this area, the marram grass Ammophila arenaria (L.) Link.
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