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A new genus and two new species of the millipede family Chelodesmidae from Bahia state, northeastern Brazil, including a likely troglobiont (Diplopoda, Polydesmida).
Zootaxa - 20 Jun 2022
Golovatch Sergei I, Bouzan Rodrigo S, Gallo Jssica S, Bichuette Maria E
Abstract excerpt
A new genus and two new species of Chelodesmidae are described from two caves of the Joo Rodrigues river system in Bahia state, northeastern Brazil: Strongylosomides troglobius sp. nov. and Rotundotergum elevatum gen. nov., sp. nov. The former species differs from congeners primarily by the gonopods showing the prefemoral process strongly fused caudally along its basal half to the acropodite and, in showing such...
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