Metazalmoxis ferrugineus Roewer, 1912:135
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Metazalmoxis ferruginea Roewer, 1912:135
The specific epithet was emended to reflect the correct gender, from the feminine (ferruginea) to the masculine (ferrugineus), by (Sharma et al., 2011:42).
Conservation Status
Extinct (Gerlach, 2014b)
Last record: 1892 (Gerlach, 2014b)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution & Habitat
Mahé, Seychelles
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Roewer, Carl Friedrich. (1912). Die Familien der Assamiden und Phalangodiden der Opiliones-Laniatores. (= Assamiden, Dampetriden, Phalangodiden, Epedaniden, Biantiden, Zalmoxiden, Samoiden, Palpipediden anderer Autoren). Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, Abt. A, Original-Arbeiten 78(3): 1-242. [Issued July 1912]
Other references:
Gerlach, Justin. (2014a). Metazalmoxis ferruginea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 07 July 2014.
Gerlach, Justin. (2014b). Metazalmoxis ferruginea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T21460777A21579916. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T21460777A21579916.en. Accessed on 01 July 2022.
Gerlach, Justin and Yu. Marusik. (2010). Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester.
Rambla, M. (1984 "1983"). Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Sechelles (Mission P.L.G. Benoit - J.J van Mol 1972). Opiliones (Arachnida). Annalen Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika Tervuren 242: 1‑86. [volume 242 appears to have been published in 1984, despite both 1983 and 1984 appearing on the title page (source)]
Roewer, Carl Friedrich. (1923). Die Weberknechte der Erde. Systematische Bearbeitung der bisher bekannten Opiliones. Jena: Gustav Fischer. 1116 pp. [p. 93 at least]
Sharma, Prashant P., Kury, Adriano B. and Giribet, Gonzalo. (2011). Zalmoxidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores) of the Paleotropics: a catalogue of Southeast Asian and Indo-Pacific species. Zootaxa 2972(1): 37-58. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2972.1.3
Staręga, Wojciech Krzysztof. (1989). Harvestmen (Opiliones) from the Mascarene Islands and resurrection of the family Zalmoxidae. Ann. Natal Mus. 30: 1-8.
Staręga, Wojciech Krzysztof. (1992). An annotated check-list of Afrotropical harvestmen, excluding the Phalangiidae (Opiliones). Ann. Natal Mus. 33(2): 271-336 [295]. [October]
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