Integrative taxonomy reveals a new genus and new species of Philosciidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea) from the Neotropical region
| Autor: | Bianca L. Zimmermann, Ivanklin Soares Campos-Filho, Paula Beatriz Araujo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Paraphyly biology biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Crustacean 03 medical and health sciences Isopoda Monophyly 030104 developmental biology Phylogenetics Evolutionary biology Molecular phylogenetics Animal Science and Zoology Taxonomy (biology) Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Philosciidae |
| Zdroj: | Canadian Journal of Zoology. 96:473-485 |
| ISSN: | 1480-3283 0008-4301 |
| Popis: | Although new methods and data are conquering space in the field of taxonomy, such as integrative taxonomy, most terrestrial isopod species are still described based only on morphology. Species of the genus Atlantoscia Ferrara and Taiti, 1981 were the first and are the unique terrestrial isopods from the Neotropics for which a molecular phylogeny was already conducted. Previous results indicated that this genus could be paraphyletic, and a more detailed analysis would be required. Our aim was to reconstruct the phylogeny of Atlantoscia using mitochondrial and nuclear markers and test its monophyly by integrating molecular and morphological data. We observed that, indeed, Atlantoscia is paraphyletic. Atlantoscia ituberasensis Campos-Filho, Lisboa and Araujo, 2013 and Atlantoscia rubromarginata Araujo and Leistikow, 1999 were placed in a new genus of terrestrial isopods, Paratlantoscia gen. nov., together with a new species described in the present study, Paratlantoscia robusta sp. nov. The new genus is defined by the presence of specialized respiratory areas in the pleopod exopods and its validity is highly corroborated by molecular analyses and by biogeographic information. This study highlights the importance of multiple and complementary perspectives as a way to improve the quality of species hypothesis and associated descriptions. |
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