Selenocheir sinuata

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Selenocheir sinuata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Polydesmida
Family: Xystodesmidae
Genus: Selenocheir
Species:
S. sinuata
Binomial name
Selenocheir sinuata
Shelley, 1994

Selenocheir sinuata is a species of flat-backed millipede in the family Xystodesmidae, endemic to Northern California. [1] [2] [3] [4] The Species was first described by Rowland M. Shelley in 1994 based on samples collected by J. S. Buckett and M. R. Gardner in 1966 [5]

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Description

Selenocheir sinuata often has a banded color pattern with black metaterga and reddish to orange/yellow tergites. The color on the tergites is also sometimes incomplete with the paranota and central portion of the tergites having color and the mid portions to either side black. [5]

Populations of S sinuata are found in the foothills bordering the northern portions of the Sacramento Valley from Humboldt county east to Shasta county and south to El Dorado county. [5]

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References

  1. "Selenocheir sinuata". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. "Selenocheir sinuata". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. Shelley, R. M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. 1 2 3 Shelley, Rowland M. (1994). "The Chonaphini, a biogeographically significant milliped tribe in eastern and western North America (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)". Brimleyana. 20: 111–200.

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