Canthonella gomezi

Canthonella gomezi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Canthonella
Species: C. gomezi
Binomial name
Canthonella gomezi
(Halffter & Martinez, 1968)

Canthonella gomeza is a species of beetle in family Scarabaeidae. It is endemic to Venezuela, and is restricted to cloud forest habitat in the Cordillera Central.[1]

It is included in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and the Venezuelan Red Book of Fauna.[2]

Sources

  1. JR Ferrer‐Paris, JP Rodríguez, AY Sánchez‐Mercado (2013) Optimización del muestreo de invertebrados tropicales: Un ejemplo con escarabajos coprófagos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) en Venezuela. Revista de Biología Tropical 61 (1), 89–100
  2. Vaz-de-Mello, F., Larsen, T., Silva, F., Favila, M., Spector, S. & Gill, B. 2013. Canthonella gomezi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T137934A533544. . Downloaded on 12 April 2016.
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