Author | Enghoff, H. & Santamaria, S. |
Year | 2015 |
Title | Infectious intimacy and contaminated caves-three new species of ectoparasitic fungi (Ascomycota: Laboulbeniales) from blaniulid millipedes (Diplopoda: Julida) and inferences about their transmittal mechanisms |
Type | Paper |
Source | Organisms, Diversity & Evolution Vol 15: 249-263. |
Illustrations | Half-tone SEM photographs, colour and half-tone photomicrographs and line drawings |
Review (by Malcolm Storey) | Troglomyces bilabiatus from Acipes spp., Troglomyces pusillus from Iberoiulus cavernicola and Troglomyces triandrus from Archiboreoiulus palidus. Labouls on burrowers transmitted during sex, those on cave-dwellers by contaminated surfaces. |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
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For identification | Current | Troglomyces triandrus | (A Laboulbeniomycete) | Fungi: Laboulbeniales: Laboulbeniaceae |
Current | Archiboreoiulus pallidus | a spotted snake millipede | Animalia: Julida: Blaniulidae |
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