genus Iandumoema, The team, headed by Dr Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha of the Instituto de Biociências da Universidade de São Paulo, named the new speciesIandumoema smeagol after the ‘Lord of the Rings’ character Smeagol.
“The species name refers to the hobbit named Smeagol, created by J.R.R. Tolkien, being the original name of Gollum – the dweller of the caves located below the Misty Mountains of Middle-earth of the Lord of the Rings book,” Dr Pinto-da-Rocha and co-authors wrote in a paper in the journal ZooKeys.
Two other extant species of the genus Iandumoema are I. uai and I. setimapocu.
According to the arachnologists, the newfound species is the most highly modified in the genus and only the second cave-dwelling harvestman with no eyes for Brazil. It also has a reduced amount of melanistic pigmentation, which shows through its pale yellowish colors.-READ MORE-http://www.sci-news.com/biology/iandumoema-smeagol-new-eyeless-harvestman-species-brazil-03451.html
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