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

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.

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“…A scanning electron microscopy image in Figure shows a species of woodlouse, Tylosmaindroni Giordani Soika. [ 102 ] A variety of periodic structures are located on different parts of the body, at the same distance from one another. The structural forms are spherical, porous, and conical sub‐wavelength structures, as well as cylindrical structures connected in a row of 3–4 cylinders and located in the same direction.…”

“…The structural forms are spherical, porous, and conical sub‐wavelength structures, as well as cylindrical structures connected in a row of 3–4 cylinders and located in the same direction. [ 102 ] On some surfaces, several sub‐wavelength structures appear at once, most likely due to other properties in addition to anti‐reflection.…”

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