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. Jump up to: 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. Jump up to: 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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