A new relictual and highly troglomorphic species of Tomoceridae (Collembola) from a deep Croatian cave

Abstract. Tritomurus veles sp. n. (Tomoceridae) is described from a Croatian cave. It is characterized by troglomorphic features (absence of eyes, reduced pigmentation, slender claw, pointed tibiotarsal tenent hairs) that only compare, among Tomoceridae, to the microendemic species Tritomurus falcif...

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Autores principales: Lukić, Marko, Houssin, Céline, Deharveng, Louis
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21594037
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.69.739
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author Lukić, Marko
Houssin, Céline
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description Abstract. Tritomurus veles sp. n. (Tomoceridae) is described from a Croatian cave. It is characterized by troglomorphic features (absence of eyes, reduced pigmentation, slender claw, pointed tibiotarsal tenent hairs) that only compare, among Tomoceridae, to the microendemic species Tritomurus falcifer from the Pyrénées. Tritomurus veles also shares with Tritomurus falcifer the absence of macrochaetae on head, a presumably non-adaptive character that within Tomoceridae is unique to these two species. Both species have no known epigean relatives in their respective distribution areas and can be considered as relictual.
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spelling pubmed-30884402011-05-18 A new relictual and highly troglomorphic species of Tomoceridae (Collembola) from a deep Croatian cave Lukić, Marko Houssin, Céline Deharveng, Louis Zookeys Article Abstract. Tritomurus veles sp. n. (Tomoceridae) is described from a Croatian cave. It is characterized by troglomorphic features (absence of eyes, reduced pigmentation, slender claw, pointed tibiotarsal tenent hairs) that only compare, among Tomoceridae, to the microendemic species Tritomurus falcifer from the Pyrénées. Tritomurus veles also shares with Tritomurus falcifer the absence of macrochaetae on head, a presumably non-adaptive character that within Tomoceridae is unique to these two species. Both species have no known epigean relatives in their respective distribution areas and can be considered as relictual. Pensoft Publishers 2010-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3088440/ /pubmed/21594037 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.69.739 Text en Marko Lukić, Céline Houssin, Louis Deharveng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Lukić, Marko
Houssin, Céline
Deharveng, Louis
A new relictual and highly troglomorphic species of Tomoceridae (Collembola) from a deep Croatian cave
title A new relictual and highly troglomorphic species of Tomoceridae (Collembola) from a deep Croatian cave
title_full A new relictual and highly troglomorphic species of Tomoceridae (Collembola) from a deep Croatian cave
title_fullStr A new relictual and highly troglomorphic species of Tomoceridae (Collembola) from a deep Croatian cave
title_full_unstemmed A new relictual and highly troglomorphic species of Tomoceridae (Collembola) from a deep Croatian cave
title_short A new relictual and highly troglomorphic species of Tomoceridae (Collembola) from a deep Croatian cave
title_sort new relictual and highly troglomorphic species of tomoceridae (collembola) from a deep croatian cave
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21594037
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.69.739
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