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Collembola fauna of the South Shetland Islands revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2010

Penelope Greenslade*
Affiliation:
Environmental Management, University of Ballarat, Ballarat, VIC 3350, Australia Botany and Zoology, Department of Biology, Australian National University, GPO, ACT 0200, Australia

Abstract

A review of the collembolan fauna of the South Shetland Islands is presented. Cryptopygus nanjiensis Yue & Tamura is synonymized with C. antarcticus Willem. A record of Tullbergia mediantarctica Wise from King George Island is considered a misidentification of Tullbergia mixta Wahlgren and Tillieria penai Weiner & Najt, described from the same island, is synonymized with T. mixta. The current fauna stands at eleven species, of which at least three are introduced. A checklist of Collembola currently considered to occur in the South Shetland Islands is supplied with distributional data.

Type
Biological Sciences
Copyright
Copyright © Antarctic Science Ltd 2010

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