Biology:Australiophilus

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Short description: Genus of centipedes

Australiophilus
Scientific classification e
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

Australiophilus is a genus of two species of centipedes, in the family Zelanophilidae. It was described by German myriapodologist Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff in 1925.[2]

Description

Centipedes in this genus range from about 7 cm to 12 cm in length, have from 95[3][4] to 117 pairs of legs, and are found in Australia and New Zealand.[5]

Species

Valid species:[2]

  • Australiophilus ferrugineus (Hutton, 1877)
  • Australiophilus longissimus Verhoeff, 1925

References

  1. 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]. 
  2. 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/282. 
  3. Haase, Erich (1887). "Die Indisch-Australischen Myriopoden. Pt. I. Chilopoden" (in German). Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 1 (5): 1-118 [111]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33469706#page/208/mode/1up. 
  4. 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. 
  5. 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. 

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