Australiophilus
Appearance
Australiophilus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
Class: | Chilopoda |
Order: | Geophilomorpha |
Family: | Zelanophilidae |
Genus: | Australiophilus Verhoeff, 1925[1] |
Type species | |
Australiophilus longissimus Verhoeff,1925
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Australiophilus is a genus of two species of centipedes, in the family Zelanophilidae. This genus was described by German myriapodologist Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff in 1925.[2] Centipedes in this genus are found in Australia and New Zealand.[3]
Description
[edit]Centipedes in this genus feature labral lateral parts with dense bristles and ultimate legs with reduced pretarsi, range from about 7 cm to 12 cm in length, and have from 95[4][5] to 117 pairs of legs.[3]
Species
[edit]Valid species:[2]
- Australiophilus ferrugineus (Hutton, 1877)
- Australiophilus longissimus Verhoeff, 1925
References
[edit]- ^ Verhoeff, KW (1925). "Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 39. Chilopoda". Arkiv för Zoologi. 17A (3): 1–62 [51].
- ^ a b 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 28 February 2023.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Haase, Erich (1887). "Die Indisch-Australischen Myriopoden. Pt. I. Chilopoden". Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden (in German). 1 (5): 1-118 [111] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Bonato, Lucio; Drago, Leandro; Murienne, Jerome (2014). "Phylogeny of Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) inferred from new morphological and molecular evidence". Cladistics. The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society. 30 (5): 485–507 [507]. doi:10.1111/cla.12060. PMID 34794246. S2CID 86204188.