Sepedonophilus

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Sepedonophilus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Geophilidae
Genus: Sepedonophilus
Attems, 1909 [1]
Synonyms
  • Sepedonophilus Attems, 1909
  • Zelanion Chamberlin, 1920
  • Pachymeroides Chamberlin, 1920

Sepedonophilus is a genus of three species of centipedes in the family Geophilidae. This genus is endemic to Australia, and was first described by Austrian myriapodologist Carl Attems in 1909. [1] [2] Centipedes in this genus feature scattered coxal pores and have no sternal pores; the lateral parts of the labrum almost touch medially, and the intermediate part is inconspicuous; the coxosternite of the second maxillae have peculiar anterior projections. These centipedes range from about 2 cm to 5 cm in length and have 49 to 79 pairs of legs. [3] The smallest species in this genus, Sepedonophilus hodites , measures only 18 mm in length and has only 49 leg pairs, [4] the minimum number recorded in this genus, whereas the largest species, S. perforatus , measures 50 mm in length and has 79 leg pairs, [5] the maximum number recorded in this genus.

Species

Valid species: [2]

References

  1. 1 2 Attems, C (1909). Schulze, L (ed.). Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 mit Unterstützung der Kgl. Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Vol. 14. Jena: Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft. pp. 1–52 [34].
  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 21 February 2023.
  3. ↑ 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. ↑ Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1940). "Diagnoses of ten new chilopods with a new genus of Sogonidae and a key to the species of Lophobius". Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 16 (2): 49–56 [55] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. ↑ Attems, Carl (1903). "Synopsis der Geophiliden". Zoologische Jahrbücher (in German). 18: 155–302 [252] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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