Abstract
This paper reports the description of a new species of the genus Proasellus Dudich. Proasellus racovitzai n.sp. is widely depigmented. The eyes are reduced. It lives in the underground stream of the Goueil-di-Her cave system (Haute-Garonne, France). The species is an old, endemic form of the phyletic line of the modern epigean species P. meridianus (Racovitza). Chromosome number of the new species: 2n = 22.
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.4.2.2
Recommended Citation
Henry, Jean-Paul and Guy Magniez.
1972.
Observations sur un Aselle obscuricole de France: Proasellus racovitzai n.sp. (Crustacea Isopoda Asellota).
International Journal of Speleology,
4: 171-188.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol4/iss2/2
