Biology:Sepedonophilus
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Short description: Genus of centipedes
Sepedonophilus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
Class: | Chilopoda |
Order: | Geophilomorpha |
Family: | Geophilidae |
Genus: | Sepedonophilus |
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Sepedonophilus is a genus of three species of centipedes in the family Geophilidae. It is endemic to Australia , and was first described by Austrian myriapodologist Carl Attems in 1909.[1][2] Centipedes in this genus 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]
- Sepedonophilus attemsii (Verhoeff, 1925)
- Sepedonophilus hodites Chamberlin, 1940
- Sepedonophilus perforatus (Haase, 1887)
References
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- ↑ 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/404.
- ↑ Bonato, Lucio; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Zapparoli, Marzio (2011). "Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview". in Minelli, Alessandro. The Myriapoda. Volume 1. Leiden: Brill. pp. 363–443. ISBN 978-90-04-18826-6. OCLC 812207443. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/812207443.
- ↑ 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]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53414503#page/63/mode/1up.
- ↑ Attems, Carl (1903). "Synopsis der Geophiliden" (in German). Zoologische Jahrbücher 18: 155–302 [252]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10338792#page/262/mode/1up.
Wikidata ☰ Q6506754 entry
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