Scolopocryptopidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Classis: Chilopoda
Ordo: Scolopendromorpha

Familia: Scolopocryptopidae
Subfamiliae (3): Kethopinae - Newportiinae - Scolopocryptopinae

Overview of genera

Kethops – Newportia – Scolopocryptops – Thalkethops

Name

Scolopocryptopidae Pocock, 1896
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References

Shelley, R.M.; Mercurio, R. 2005: Ectonocryptoides quadrimeropus, a new centipede genus and species from Jalisco, Mexico; proposal of Ectonocryptopinae, analysis of subfamilial relationships, and a key to subfamilies and genera of the Scolopocryptopidae (Scolopendromorpha). Zootaxa 1094: 25–40. Abstract & excerpt
Schileyko, A.A., Vahtera, V. & Edgecombe, G.D. 2020. An overview of the extant genera and subgenera of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda): A new identification key and updated diagnoses. Zootaxa 4825(1):1–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4825.1.1 Reference page.

Links

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Scolopocryptopidae is a family of blind centipedes.[1] The number of leg-bearing segments is fixed at 23 for species in this family, which distinguishes the species in this family from all other centipede species.[2][3][1][4][5]
Genera

Dinocryptops
Ectonocryptoides
Ectonocryptops
Kartops
Kethops
Newportia
Scolopocryptops
Thalkethops
Tidops

References

Vahtera, Varpu; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Giribet, Gonzalo (2012). "Evolution of blindness in scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha): insight from an expanded sampling of molecular data". Cladistics. 28 (1): 4–20. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00361.x. ISSN 1096-0031. PMID 34856735. S2CID 84329980.
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.
Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Giribet, Gonzalo (2007). "Evolutionary Biology of Centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda)". Annual Review of Entomology. 52: 151–170. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.52.110405.091326. PMID 16872257.
Jiang, Chao; Bai, Yunjun; Shi, Mengxuan; Liu, Juan (2020-12-05). "Rediscovery and phylogenetic relationships of the scolopendromorph centipede Mimops orientalis Kraepelin, 1903 (Chilopoda): a monotypic species of Mimopidae endemic to China, for more than one century". ZooKeys (932): 75–91. doi:10.3897/zookeys.932.51461. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 7239954. PMID 32476974.
Benavides, Ligia R.; Jiang, Chao; Giribet, Gonzalo (2021-09-01). "Mimopidae is the sister group to all other scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha): a phylotranscriptomic approach". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 21 (3): 591–598. doi:10.1007/s13127-021-00502-2. ISSN 1618-1077. S2CID 239688370.