Thomas E. Bowman & Thomas M. Iliffe. 1983. Bermudalana aruboides, a new genus and species of troglobitic Isopoda (Cirolanidae) from marine caves on Bermuda. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 96: 291-300.
Bermudalana aruboides, a blind unpigmented cirolanid isopod
representing a new genus, is described from inland marine caves on
Bermuda. It is the first hypogean cirolanid known from Bermuda.
The close resemblance between Bermudalana and Arubolana, known
from brackish groundwater on Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, suggests
that both were derived from a common marine ancestor.
Thomas Bowman (deceased). - Thomas M. Iliffe, Department of Marine
Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, P.O. Box 1675, Galveston, Texas 77553, USA.
E-mail: iliffet@tamug.edu
Keywords: Isopoda; Cirolanidae; Bermudalana; Arubolana; new genus; caves; anchialine; Bermuda.
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