Genus Armadillo Latreille, 1802

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Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Arcangeli, A. 1933. Isopodi terrestri delle isole Samoa e considerazioni sopra la distribuzione geographica del genere Armadillo Latr. emend. Verh. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 43: 25-33 [29]

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

ARMADILLIDAE: Armadillo officinalis Duméril, 1816 — Poore, G.C.B. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida, Peracarida: Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea. In Houston, W.W.K. & Beesley, P.L. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 434 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Mediterranean region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf

General References

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1998. Opinion 1897. Glomeris Latreille, 1802 (Diplopoda), Armadillo Latreille, 1802, Armadillidium Brandt in Brandt & Ratzenburg, [1831] and Armadillo vulgaris Latreille, 1804 (currently Armadillidium vulgare) (Crustacea, Isopoda): generic and specific names conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 55: 124-128 [124] (all previous fixations of type species of Armadillo set aside, and the name Armadillo Cuvier, 1792 and all uses of the name Armadillo prior to <43366>)

Schmalfuss, H. 1996. The terrestrial isopod genus Armadillo in western Asia (Oniscidea: Armidillidae), with descriptions of five new species. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie) 544: 1-43 (diagnosis and distribution)

Taiti, S., Paoli, P. & Ferrara, F. 1998. Morphology, biogeography, and ecology of the family Armadillidae (Crustacea, Oniscidea). Israel Journal of Zoology 44: 291-301 [299] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement question validity of subgenus Troglarmadillo)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	PERACARIDA Calman, 1904	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED	Lauren Timms (NMV) Dr Genefor Walker-Smith (NMV)
05-Aug-2022	ISOPODA Latreille, 1817	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED