Australiophilus

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Australiophilus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Zelanophilidae
Genus: Australiophilus
Verhoeff, 1925 [1]
Type species
Australiophilus longissimus
Verhoeff,1925

Australiophilus is a genus of two species of centipedes, in the family Zelanophilidae. This genus was described by German myriapodologist Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff in 1925. [2] Centipedes in this genus are found in Australia and New Zealand. [3]

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Description

Centipedes in this genus feature labral lateral parts with dense bristles and ultimate legs with reduced pretarsi, range from about 7 cm to 12 cm in length, and have from 95 [4] [5] to 117 pairs of legs. [3]

Species

Valid species: [2]

References

  1. ↑ Verhoeff, KW (1925). "Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 39. Chilopoda". Arkiv för Zoologi. 17A (3): 1–62 [51].
  2. 1 2 Bonato L.; Chagas Junior A.; Edgecombe G.D.; Lewis J.G.E.; Minelli A.; Pereira L.A.; Shelley R.M.; Stoev P.; Zapparoli M. (2016). "ChiloBase 2.0". A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese, University of Padua. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  3. 1 2 Bonato, Lucio; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Zapparoli, Marzio (2011). "Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview". In Minelli, Alessandro (ed.). The Myriapoda. Volume 1. Leiden: Brill. pp. 363–443. ISBN   978-90-04-18826-6. OCLC   812207443.
  4. ↑ Haase, Erich (1887). "Die Indisch-Australischen Myriopoden. Pt. I. Chilopoden". Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden (in German). 1 (5): 1–118 [111] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. ↑ Bonato, Lucio; Drago, Leandro; Murienne, Jerome (2014). "Phylogeny of Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) inferred from new morphological and molecular evidence". Cladistics. The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society. 30 (5): 485–507 [507]. doi: 10.1111/cla.12060 . PMID   34794246. S2CID   86204188.
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