Amphipoda taxon details
original description
Hudec, I.; Fišer, C.; Dolanský, J. (2017). Niphargus diadematus sp. n. (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Niphargidae), an inhabitant of a shallow subterranean habitat in South Moravia (Czech Republic). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4291(1): 41., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4291.1.3 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Ecology The species is likely inhabitant of shallow subterranean habitat, linked with groundwater. The description of collection is as follows:
The animals were collected in a single series of vertical, subterranean traps designed to sample vertical profile of soil every 10 cm between –10 cm and –90 cm. We set totally 9 traps at distance 10 cm for sampling the ground spiders The first sampling period took place between the 29th May-5th November 2014, whereas the second sampling period took
place between the 5th November 2015–17th May 2015. The lowest parts of the traps were twice flooded. During the
floods the traps collected groundwater animals. In the first sampling period we collected 20 specimens of
Niphargus at depths between -40 and -90 cm, whereas in the second sampling period we collected 169 specimens at depths between -70 and -90 cm. The specimens were collected in the mixture of 5% formaldehyde and glycerol.Unfortunately this mixture degraded DNA and we could not equence the specimens. [details]
Etymology The species name was derived from the Latin word: diadema (semicrown)- based on the arrangement of terminal spines on the telson. [details]
Holotype adult male, partially dissected, 6.3 mm, mounted in Swann-medium and deposited at Natural History Museum in Prague, Czech Republic (NHMP-P6E4172). [details]
Type locality The sampling site is located within the inundation area of the Včelínek Brook, about 30 m from brook (48°47’12.3’’ N; 16°50’ 41.7’’ E) in 167 m a.s.l. and about 1.4 km from the confluence with the Dyje River (near Lednice). The area belongs into Dyjsko-Svratecký úval (Dyje-vratkaravine), which is the western part of Lower Moravia ravine. [details]
Type material Holotype: Lednice (29. May 2014–5. November 2014): adult male, partially dissected, 6.3 mm, mounted in Swann-medium and deposited at Natural History Museum in Prague, Czech Republic (NHMP-P6E4172).
Allotype: Lednice, (29. May 2014–5. November 2014): adult female partially dissected, 5.7 mm, mounted in Swann-medium and deposited at NHMP-P6E4173.
Paratypes: Lednice (29. May 2014–5. November 2014: dissected adult male, 6.7 mm, mounted in Swann medium
and deposited at NHMP-P6E4174.
Lednice (29. May 2014 –5. November 2014: dissected adult female, 5.9 mm, mounted in Swann-medium and
deposited at NHMP-P6E4175.
Paratype series. Lednice (29. May 2014–5.November 2014): 8 males in vial preserved in ethanol and deposited at NHMP-P6E4176.
Lednice,(29. May 2014–5.November 2014): 8 females in vial preserved in ethanol and deposited at NHMP.
Three paratypes on three slides mounted in Swann-medium (partially dissected females) 5. November 2014 –
17. May 2015 (NHMP—P6E4177–P6E 4179). [details]
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