Tylos europaeus Arcangeli, 1938

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 : 2069-2070

Tylos europaeus Arcangeli, 1938

Tylos europaeus ; Achouri et al., 2008c, pp. 76–78; Colombini et al., 2008, p. 86; Charfi-Cheikhrouha and El Gtari, 2008, p. 95.

Material examined

12 ♂♂, 12 ♀♀, 8 juvs, St. 1, under debris on beach, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 28 September 2005 ( MZUF 9450 ) ; 14 ♂♂, 14 ♀♀, St. 5, beach under stones, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 1 May 2004 ( MZUF 9451 ) ; 1 ♀, same locality and collectors, 1 October 2005 ( MZUF 9452 ) .

Previous Rif records

Oued Laou region ( Achouri et al. 2008c); Oued Laou ( Colombini et al. 2008); Aouchtane ( Charfi-Cheikhrouha and El Gtari 2008).

Distribution

This littoral species is known with certainty from the whole Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Atlantic coasts of Europe as far north as Brittany, and the Azores.

Remarks

The exact distribution of T. europaeus is difficult to be defined since in the past it has been often recorded as Tylos latreillii Audouin, 1826 together with the other Mediterranean species T. ponticus Grebnitzky, 1874 . For comments on the taxonomy and diagnostic characters of this species see Taiti and Ferrara (1996).