The Oriental millipede genus Nepalella Shear, 1979, with the description of a new species from Thailand and an updated key (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Megalotylidae)

The Oriental genus Nepalella is reviewed, rediagnosed and shown to comprise 28 species, including N.siamensissp. nov. from southeastern Thailand. All Nepalella species are keyed, and their distributions mapped, being highly localized and mainly allopatric. Unlike most congeners, which are largely co...

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Autores principales: Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Golovatch, Sergei I., Panha, Somsak
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8825426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35233169
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1084.78744
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description The Oriental genus Nepalella is reviewed, rediagnosed and shown to comprise 28 species, including N.siamensissp. nov. from southeastern Thailand. All Nepalella species are keyed, and their distributions mapped, being highly localized and mainly allopatric. Unlike most congeners, which are largely confined to subtropical environments (including montane to high-montane conditions, up to 3800 m a.s.l.) or karst caves (eight species, all in southern China alone), the new species is the southernmost in the distribution area of the entire genus, also being among the very few (four) that are restricted to lowland, purely tropical habitats.
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spelling pubmed-88254262022-02-28 The Oriental millipede genus Nepalella Shear, 1979, with the description of a new species from Thailand and an updated key (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Megalotylidae) Likhitrakarn, Natdanai Golovatch, Sergei I. Panha, Somsak Zookeys Research Article The Oriental genus Nepalella is reviewed, rediagnosed and shown to comprise 28 species, including N.siamensissp. nov. from southeastern Thailand. All Nepalella species are keyed, and their distributions mapped, being highly localized and mainly allopatric. Unlike most congeners, which are largely confined to subtropical environments (including montane to high-montane conditions, up to 3800 m a.s.l.) or karst caves (eight species, all in southern China alone), the new species is the southernmost in the distribution area of the entire genus, also being among the very few (four) that are restricted to lowland, purely tropical habitats. Pensoft Publishers 2022-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8825426/ /pubmed/35233169 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1084.78744 Text en Natdanai Likhitrakarn, Sergei I. Golovatch, Somsak Panha https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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The Oriental millipede genus Nepalella Shear, 1979, with the description of a new species from Thailand and an updated key (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Megalotylidae)
title The Oriental millipede genus Nepalella Shear, 1979, with the description of a new species from Thailand and an updated key (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Megalotylidae)
title_full The Oriental millipede genus Nepalella Shear, 1979, with the description of a new species from Thailand and an updated key (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Megalotylidae)
title_fullStr The Oriental millipede genus Nepalella Shear, 1979, with the description of a new species from Thailand and an updated key (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Megalotylidae)
title_full_unstemmed The Oriental millipede genus Nepalella Shear, 1979, with the description of a new species from Thailand and an updated key (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Megalotylidae)
title_short The Oriental millipede genus Nepalella Shear, 1979, with the description of a new species from Thailand and an updated key (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Megalotylidae)
title_sort the oriental millipede genus nepalella shear, 1979, with the description of a new species from thailand and an updated key (diplopoda, chordeumatida, megalotylidae)
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8825426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35233169
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1084.78744
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