Schendylidae

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Schendylidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Chilopoda
Order:
Geophilomorpha
Suborder:
Adesmata
Superfamily:
Himantarioidea
Family:
Schendylidae

Cook, 1896

Schendylidae is a paraphyletic (with respect to Ballophilidae) family of soil centipedes in the order Geophilomorpha and superfamily Himantarioidea.[1] There are at least 30 genera and 210 described species in Schendylidae.[2][3][4][5][6] Compared to most other families in the suborder Adesmata, this family features a modest number of leg-bearing segments and limited variation in this number within each species (usually no more than three or four contiguous odd numbers).[7] This family includes the two species with the fewest legs (27 pairs) in the order Geophilomorpha: males in the species Schendylops ramirezi have only 27 pairs of legs, while females have 29, and males in the species S. oligopus have 27 or 29 (usually 29), while females have 31.[8]

Genera[]

  • Cook & Collins, 1891
  • Chamberlin, 1914

References[]

  1. ^ Bonato, Lucio (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. doi:10.1111/cla.12060. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Schendylidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  3. ^ "Schendylidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  4. ^ "Schendylidae Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  5. ^ "Browse Schendylidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  6. ^ Shelley, R.M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  7. ^ Minelli, Alessandro; Bortoletto, Stefano (1988-04-01). "Myriapod metamerism and arthropod segmentation". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 33 (4): 323–343. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1988.tb00448.x. ISSN 0024-4066.
  8. ^ Pereira, Luis Alberto (2013-01-01). "Discovery of a second geophilomorph species (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) having twenty-seven leg-bearing segments, the lowest number recorded up to the present in the centipede order Geophilomorpha". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 53 (13): 163–185. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492013001300001. ISSN 1807-0205.

Further reading[]

  • Foddai, Donatella; Dallai, Romano (1995). Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, Symphyla. Calderini.
  • Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.


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