Selenocheir sinuata | |
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Scientific classification | |
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]
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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