Schendylops
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Chilopoda |
| Order: | Geophilomorpha |
| Family: | Schendylidae |
| Genus: | Schendylops Cook, 1899 |
| Type species | |
| Schendyla grandidieri (Saussure and Zehntner, 1897)
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Schendylops is the largest genus of centipedes in the family Schendylidae, containing more than 60 species.[1][2] This genus was first proposed by the American biologist Orator F. Cook in 1899 for the type species originally named Schendyla grandidieri in 1897.[3][4] Centipedes in this genus are found in South America, Africa, and Madagascar.[2]
Description
These centipedes feature two rows of filaments on the claws of the second maxillae, sternal pore fields, two pores on each coxopleuron, and ultimate legs with seven segments but no claw.[2][4] The pleurites of the second maxillae are not fused to the coxosternum.[4] Species in this genus range from about 1 cm to about 7 cm in length and have from 27 to 87 pairs of legs.[2]
This genus is notable for including the two species that feature the fewest legs (27 pairs) in the order Geophilomorpha. Both of these species are found in Brazil: 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.[5] Furthermore, S. ramirezi is one of only two species in this order in which females have only 29 leg pairs (the other species, Dinogeophilus oligopodus has 29 in each sex).[5] Both S. ramirezi and S. oligopus are also notable for their small sizes, reaching only 7 mm and 10 mm in length, respectively.[5]
Males of the African species S. caledonicus have from 83 to 85 leg pairs,[6] while females have from 83 to as many as 87 pairs,[4] the maximum recorded in this genus.[2] This species is also notable for its large size, reaching 65 mm in length.[6] Other species in this genus noted for their large size include the African species S. maroccanus (which can reach 60 mm in length) and S. attemsi (which can reach 63 mm in length).[6][4][2]
Species
This genus contains more than 60 species, including the following:[1]
- Schendylops attemsi Verhoeff, 1900
- Schendylops caledonicus (Attems, 1928)
- Schendylops grandidieri (Saussure and Zehntner, 1897)
- Schendylops maroccanus (Attems, 1903)
- Schendylops oligopus (Pereira, Minelli and Barbieri, 1995)
- Schendylops ramirezi Pereira, 2013
References
- ^ a b "ITIS - Report: Schendylops". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
- ^ a b c d e f 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.
- ^ Cook, O. F. (1899). "The Geophiloidea of Florida Keys". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 4: 303–312 [305].
- ^ a b c d e Hoffman, Richard L.; Pereira, Luis Alberto (1997). "The identity and taxonomic status of the generic names Schendylops Cook, 1899, and Schendylurus Silvestri, 1907, and the proposal of Orygmadyla, a new related genus from Perú (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Schendylidae)". Myriapodologica. 5 (2). ISSN 0163-5395.
- ^ a b c 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. hdl:11336/3449. ISSN 1807-0205.
- ^ a b c Attems, Carl (1929). Attems, Karl (ed.). Lfg. 52 Myriapoda, 1: Geophilomorpha (in German). De Gruyter. pp. 78–79, 92. doi:10.1515/9783111430638. ISBN 978-3-11-143063-8.
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