Biology:Paracryptops

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Short description: Genus of centipedes

Paracryptops
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Scolopendromorpha
Family: Cryptopidae
Genus: Paracryptops
Pocock, 1891[1]
Type species
Paracryptops weberi
Pocock,1891

Paracryptops is a genus of centipedes in the family Cryptopidae. It was described in 1891 by British myriapodologist Reginald Innes Pocock.[1][2]

Species

There are five valid species:[2]

  • Paracryptops breviunguis Silvestri, 1895
  • Paracryptops indicus Silvestri, 1924
  • Paracryptops inexpectus Chamberlin, 1914
  • Paracryptops spinosus Jangi & Dass, 1978
  • Paracryptops weberi Pocock, 1891

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Pocock, RI (1891). "Notes on the synonymy of some species of Scolopendridae with descriptions of new genera and species of the group". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 7: 51–58, 221–231 [227]. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Bonato L.; Chagas Junior A. (2016). "ChiloBase 2.0". A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese, University of Padua. https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it/searches/result_genres/69. Retrieved 15 April 2023. 

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