Nouvelles données sur les Asellidae épigés d’Extrême-Orient (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota)

Numerous samples of oculate Asellus from eastern Siberia and the Japanese Islands, one from southern China, and one from Alaska, have been studied. The epigean fresh waters of this large Asiatic region generally harbour populations identified as Asellus ( Asellus ) hilgendorfii Bovallius, 1886, or s...

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Published in:Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde
Main Authors: Henry, Jean-Paul, Magniez, Guy
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Brill 1995
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26660644-06502003
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Summary:Numerous samples of oculate Asellus from eastern Siberia and the Japanese Islands, one from southern China, and one from Alaska, have been studied. The epigean fresh waters of this large Asiatic region generally harbour populations identified as Asellus ( Asellus ) hilgendorfii Bovallius, 1886, or some of its geographical forms previously considered as species, subspecies, or not yet named. The “ hilgendorfii ”complex seems to possess the dimension of a superspecies.