Annobodillo coecus
Sign in to saveAnnobodillo is a genus of woodlice belonging to the family Armadillidae. This genus was described in 1983 by Helmut Schmalfuss and Franco Ferrara. The type specimen for this species is an Annobodillo coecus from Annobón. There is currently only one species in this genus.
Species
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderIsopoda
- FamilyArmadillidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1
- Family
- Armadillidae
- Collections
- NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Equatorial Guinea
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Annobodillo is a genus of woodlice belonging to the family Armadillidae. This genus was described in 1983 by Helmut Schmalfuss and Franco Ferrara. The type specimen for this species is an Annobodillo coecus from Annobón. There is currently only one species in this genus.
== Description == The body of this genus is pigmentless and they have no traceable ocelli. They are able to fully conglobate. They have vertical epimera. Their frontal lamina protrude slightly past the end of their head. Their first pereonal segment is thickened laterally and grooved along its length. Their second pereonal segment has triangular epimeron and small tooth on the ventral surface. their third pereonal has a very slight transverse ventral thickening. Their telson are hour-glass-shaped with a short distal part. Their uropod protopodite is distally rectangular. They have exopodites.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Annobodillo coecus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.