New species and first record of Alloniscus Dana, 1854 (Isopoda: Oniscidae: Alloniscidae) from Brazil

Abstract

The genus Alloniscus Dana, 1854 includes 23 known species occurring exclusively in littoral habitats. The genus has never been recorded from the Atlantic coastal region of the Americas. This work describes the new species Alloniscus buckupi n. sp. from João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, and provides the first record of the genus from the Atlantic coastal region.

Review and guide to the isopods (Crustacea, Isopoda) of littoral and sublittoral marine habitats in the Southern California Bight

“… cornutus var. lagunae ), Schultz (1984) , Garthwaite and Lawson (1992) , Leistikow and Wägele (1999) , Jass and Klausmeier (2000 , 2001 ), Schmalfuss (2003) , McLaughlin et al (2005) , Espinosa-Pérez and Hendrickx (2006) , Brusca et al (2007) , and Campos-Filho et al (2018) .…”

“…Body length to ~ 12 mm. See Dana (1854) , Richardson (1899 , 1900c , 1905a ), Shearer (1942) , Hewatt (1946) , Hatch (1947) , Brusca (1966) , George and Strömberg (1968) , Miller (1975) , Lee and Miller (1980) , Schultz (1984) , Ricketts et al (1985) , Garthwaite and Lawson (1992) , Leistikow and Wägele (1999) , Jass and Klausmeier (2000 , 2001 ), Espinosa-Pérez and Hendrickx (2001a , 2006 ), Schmalfuss (2003) , McLaughlin et al (2005) , Brusca et al (2007) , SCAMIT (2011 – 2021 ), Hubbard et al (2014) , Campos-Filho et al (2018) , and Wright and Harris (2020) .…”