Eluma praticola is a species of woodlouse, found throughout northeastern Morocco in the Oued Laou basin.[1] Its name derives from the Latin word for meadow (pratum) and the stem of the Latin word for live (colere).[2]
| Eluma praticola | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Isopoda |
| Suborder: | Oniscidea |
| Family: | Armadillidiidae |
| Genus: | Eluma |
| Species: | E. praticola
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| Binomial name | |
| Eluma praticola Taiti & Rossano, 2015
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Description
editMales grow to about 5.5 millimetres (0.22 in) in length, whereas egg-bearing females reach 7 millimetres (0.28 in) in length. The species has a convex body and has the ability to conglobate. It is brown in color, the epimera being paler on pereonites 2-7. Its dorsal surface is free of ornamentation, but contains numerous round pits and setae. Like other members of the Eluma genus its eyes consist of one large ommatidium. The telson is triangular.[2]
References
edit- ^ Schotte M, Boyko CB, Bruce NL, Poore GC, Taiti S, Wilson GD (eds.). "Eluma praticola". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ a b Taiti, Stefano; Rossano, Claudia (2015-09-10). "Terrestrial isopods from the Oued Laou basin, north-eastern Morocco (Crustacea: Oniscidea), with descriptions of two new genera and seven new species". Journal of Natural History. 49 (33–34): 2122–2129. doi:10.1080/00222933.2015.1009512. ISSN 0022-2933.