Hawaiioscia | |
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Various images of both male and female Hawaiioscia nicoyaensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Superorder: | Peracarida |
Order: | Isopoda |
Suborder: | Oniscidea |
Family: | Philosciidae |
Genus: | Hawaiioscia Schultz, 2018 |
Species | |
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Hawaiioscia is a genus of woodlouse known from the Hawaii, Rapa Nui, and Costa Rica. The genus was originally described from Hawaii on the presence of four troglobitic species on separate islands.[1] A species within this genus was then described from Rapa Nui which lacked troglobtic traits, but only persists in cave-dwelling relict populations.[2] Surprisingly, another species was then described from along the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica.[3]
Species within this genus include: