Biology:Gonibregmatidae

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Short description: Family of centipedes

Gonibregmatidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
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Class:
Chilopoda
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Family:
Gonibregmatidae

Gonibregmatidae are a paraphyletic (with respect to Neogeophilidae and Eriphantidae) family of soil centipedes belonging to the superfamily Geophiloidea.[1][2]

Description

The number of leg-bearing segments in this family varies within as well as among species and ranges from 57 to 191.[3] These centipedes are very elongated with a high mean number of trunk segments (often greater than 100) and great variability in this number within species.[4] The minimum number of legs recorded in this family (57 pairs) appears in the species Himantosoma bidivisum.[5] This family includes the species Gonibregmatus plurimipes, which can have as many as 191 leg pairs, the maximum number recorded in the class Chilopoda.[6]

Distribution

Centipedes in this family are found in Madagascar , India , southeast Asia, and Australasia, and on islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Genera

  • Disargus Cook, 1896
  • Eucratonyx Pocock, 1898
  • Gonibregmatus Newport, 1843
  • Himantosoma Pocock, 1891
  • Sogophagus Chamberlin, 1912
  • Vinaphilus

References

  1. "Gonibregmatidae" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/4074. 
  2. 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. PMID 34794246. 
  3. 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. 
  4. 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. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1988.tb00448.x. 
  5. Attems, C. (1938). "Die von Dr. C. Dawydoff in französisch Indochina gesammelten Myriopoden" (in German). Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6 (2): 187–353 [322]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/277852#page/138/mode/1up. 
  6. Fusco, Giuseppe (2005). "Trunk segment numbers and sequential segmentation in myriapods" (in en). Evolution & Development 7 (6): 608–617. doi:10.1111/j.1525-142X.2005.05064.x. ISSN 1525-142X. PMID 16336414. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1525-142X.2005.05064.x. 

Wikidata ☰ Q4039583 entry