Kokhia Mzia S, Golovatch Sergei I
Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University, K. Cholokashvili Ave., 3/5, Tbilisi 0162, Georgia.
Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 33, Moscow 119071, Russia.
Zookeys. 2018 Mar 7(741):35-48. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.741.20042. eCollection 2018.
The diplopod fauna of Georgia, Transcaucasia, is very rich given the country's relatively small territory, presently comprising 95 species from 42 genera, 12 families, and seven orders. Most of the Diplopoda known from Georgia are subendemics (39 species, or 38%), shared with one or more neighbouring countries, but another 33 species (33%) are strict endemics, nearly all highly localized, including 12 presumed troglobites. Several genera are likewise endemic to Georgia, including a few troglobionts. Within Georgia, the fauna of the western part (= Colchis) is particularly rich and diverse, the faunas of the central and eastern parts of the country growing increasingly depauperate inland and apparently following a rather gradual climatic aridisation gradient from west (the Black Sea coast) to east (Armenia and Azerbaijan). Much more work to include alpine and cave environments is required in order to reveal and refine the real diversity of Georgia's Diplopoda.
考虑到格鲁吉亚的领土相对较小，其倍足纲动物区系却非常丰富，目前已知有来自42个属、12个科和7个目的95个物种。格鲁吉亚已知的大多数倍足纲动物是次特有种（39种，占38%），与一个或多个邻国共有，但另外33种（33%）是严格的特有种，几乎都分布在非常局部的地区，包括12种假定的洞穴生物。有几个属同样是格鲁吉亚特有的，包括一些洞穴生物。在格鲁吉亚境内，西部（=科尔基斯）的动物区系特别丰富多样，该国中部和东部的动物区系在内陆地区日益贫乏，显然是随着从西部（黑海沿岸）到东部（亚美尼亚和阿塞拜疆）相当逐渐的气候干旱化梯度变化。为了揭示和完善格鲁吉亚倍足纲动物的真正多样性，还需要做更多工作，包括对高山和洞穴环境的研究。
