Eluma is a genus of woodlice in the family Armadillidiidae. The members of this genus are native to the Iberian Peninsula, Morocco, the Atlantic islands of the Azores, Canaries and Madeira, and from the west of France to the British Isles.[1][2]

Eluma
Eluma caelata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Armadillidiidae
Genus: Eluma
Budde-Lund, 1885

Species

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Eluma contains the following four species:[3]

References

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  1. ^ Cifuentes, Julio; da Silva, Luis P. (2023). "The genus Eluma in the Iberian Peninsula, with the description of a new terrestrial isopod: Eluma matae sp. nov. (Oniscidea, Armadillidiidae, Eluminae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (860): 27–41. doi:10.5852/ejt.2023.860.2047. ISSN 2118-9773. S2CID 257007895.
  2. ^ Reboleira, Ana Sofia P.S.; Goncalves, Fernando; Oromí, Pedro; Taiti, Stefano (2015). "The cavernicolous Oniscidea (Crustacea: Isopoda) of Portugal". European Journal of Taxonomy (161). doi:10.5852/ejt.2015.161. hdl:10773/18035. S2CID 85982586.
  3. ^ Schotte M, Boyko CB, Bruce NL, Poore GC, Taiti S, Wilson GD (eds.). "Eluma". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species.