Author/Editor     Sket, Boris; Bruce, Niel L
Title     Sphaeromatids (Isopoda, Sphaeromatidae) from New Zeland fresh and hypogean waters, with description of Bilistra N. hen. and three new species
Type     članek
Source     Crustaceana
Vol. and No.     Letnik 76, št. 11
Publication year     2004
Volume     str. 1347-70
Language     eng
Abstract     Bilistra gen. nov., B. millari n. sp., type species, B. mollicapulans n. sp. and B, cavernicola n. sp, are described from karst areas in the northwest of South Island, New Zealand. Bilistra millari n, sp. occurs mainly in surface waters, while B. mollicopulans and B. cavernicola are stygobiotic and troglomorphic, occurring in cave waters. The genus is related to Benthosphaeromo Bruce, 1994, Neosphaeroma Baker, 1926, and Thermosphaeroma Cole & Bane, 1978, but each of these genera exhibits its own apomorphies, mainly in brood-pouch structure and morphology of pleopods IV-V.
Descriptors     CRUSTACEA
ECOSYSTEM
NEW ZEALAND