Jump to content

Geophilus alzonis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Geophilus alzonis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Geophilidae
Genus: Geophilus
Species:
G. alzonis
Binomial name
Geophilus alzonis
(Attems, 1952)

Geophilus alzonis is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae[1] found in Monte Alzo near Tolosa in Spain, which it was named after.[2] It's a poorly defined species[3][4] that was described as being light yellow with a light chestnut brown head and 13–14 mm long, with small but numerous leg bristles, sternites bearing three longitudinal furrows, a carpophagus formation from segments 3–6 to segments 11th-13, and 37-51 leg pairs.[5]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Geophilus alzonis Attems, 1952". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Geophilus alzonis Attems, 1952". ChiloBase 2.0. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  3. ^ Bonato, Lucio; Minelli, Alessandro; Lopresti, Massimo; Pierfilippo Cerretti, Pierfilippo (2014). "Supplementary File 1". ChiloKey, an interactive identification tool for the geophilomorph centipedes of Europe (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha): 1–8. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  4. ^ Bonato, Lucio; Minelli, Alessandro (2009). "Geophilomorph centipedes in the Mediterranean region: revisiting taxonomy opens new evolutionary vistas". Soil Organisms. 81 (3): 489–503. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  5. ^ Attems, C. (1952). "Myriopoden der Forschungsreise Dr. H. Franz in Spanien 1951 nebst Übersicht über die gesamte iberische Myriopodenfauna". Eos. 28: 323–366. Retrieved 20 July 2022.