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Geophilus Ibericus
''Geophilus '' is a large, heterogeneous genus of Geophilomorpha, soil centipedes in the family (biology), family Geophilidae largely considered to be synonymous with ''Brachygeophilus''. The generic name first appeared in Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopaedia in 1814 as ''Geophilus electricus''. This genus has a Holarctic realm, Holarctic distribution. Description This genus is characterized by a claw-shaped ultimate Arthropod leg#Tarsus, pretarsus, complete or nearly complete arthropod leg#Coxa, coxo-Pleuron (insect anatomy), pleural sutures at the prosternum, and incomplete chitin-lines. Centipedes in this genus feature slightly elongate heads and labral intermediate parts with Tubercle, tubercles, the Forcipule, forcipules are usually poorly elongate with a single small tubercle at the base of each tarsungulum, and the anterior trunk metasternites usually have an anterior medial socket and a posterior transversally elongate pore-field. Centipedes in this genus range from about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Elford Leach
William Elford Leach (2 February 1791 – 25 August 1836) was an English zoologist and marine biologist. Life and work Elford Leach was born at Hoe Gate, Plymouth, the son of an attorney. At the age of twelve he began a medical apprenticeship at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Devonshire and Exeter Hospital, studying anatomy and chemistry. By this time he was already collecting marine animals from Plymouth Sound and along the Devon coast. At seventeen he began studying medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, finishing his training at the University of Edinburgh before graduating Doctor of Medicine, MD from the University of St Andrews (where he had never studied). From 1813 Leach concentrated on his zoological interests and was employed as an 'Assistant Librarian' (what would later be called Assistant Keeper) in the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Department of the British Museum, where he had responsibility for the zoological collections. Here ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geophilus Pusillus
''Geophilus pusillus'' is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae found in Algeria. It grows up to 11 millimeters in length. The original description of this species is based on ten specimens: five male specimens from Algeria with 31 pairs of legs, and five specimens from Germany (four males with 33 leg pairs and one female with 35 leg pairs). Records from the Alpstein mountains indicate that ''G. pusillus'' is a soil-dwelling species (burrowing as deep as 30 cm) that prefers humus-rich soil, but these records deserve confirmation. Some authorities consider the specimens recorded from Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ... to be specimens of ''G. ribauti'' that have been misidentified as specimens of the Algerian species ''G. pusillus''. Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geophilus Alaskanus
''Geophilus alaskanus'' is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae found in Alaska. It bears similarities to '' Mecistocephalus attenuatus'', however unlike ''M. attenuatus'', it has oblong cephalic lamina, unarmed coxae, and unarmed claw at base. ''G. alaskanus'' is dull orange-brown in color, grows to about 30 millimeters, and has 53 leg pairs (in male specimens) with the first pair being very small and the last pair being distinctly larger than the others. It also possesses coalesced frontal lamina, unexposed basal lamina broader than the cephalic, a prehensorial sternum that's broader than it is long, distinct lateral grooves, obsolete prosternal teeth, a smooth, bare dorsal surface except for two faint impressed lines, and a small pleurae The pleurae (: pleura) are the two flattened closed sacs filled with pleural fluid, each ensheathing each lung and lining their surrounding tissues, locally appearing as two opposing layers of serous membrane separating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geophilus Aetnensis
''Geophilus aetnensis'' is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae Geophilidae is a family of soil centipedes in the superfamily Geophiloidea and the order Geophilomorpha. In 2014, a phylogenetic analysis based on morphological and molecular data found this family to be polyphyletic. To avoid this polyphyly, ... found in Europe and northern Asia, excluding China. As described by Verhoeff in 1928, it grows up to 28 millimeters and has 53 leg pairs, 4 sensory setae each on the 2nd-4th front sternites, slightly notched maxillae, and very faint sternal pits on the thorax as well as poorly developed sternal grooves. Taxonomy ''G. aetnensis'' is frequently mistaken with '' G. impressus'' and was found to be synonymous with its subspecies ''G. insculptus debilis''. Some consider '' G. gavoyi'' to be a synonym of ''G. aetnensis'', but this is not official. References aetnensis Myriapods of Europe Arthropods of Asia Animals described in 1928 {{Centipede- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geophilus Aenariensis
Geophilus aenariensis is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae Geophilidae is a family of soil centipedes in the superfamily Geophiloidea and the order Geophilomorpha. In 2014, a phylogenetic analysis based on morphological and molecular data found this family to be polyphyletic. To avoid this polyphyly, ... found in the southern Italian Peninsula. It has a body length of up to 22 millimeters, around 47 leg pairs in females and 51 in males, an absence of anal pores and bristles on the lateral part of the labrum, a distinct carpophagus pit, a small but pointed pretarsus of the second maxillae, and 3-5 coxal pores in each coxopleuron with no isolated coxal pores. References {{Taxonbar, from= Q6507330 aenariensis Arthropods of Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geophilus Admarinus
''Geophilus admarinus'' is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae. It's found in southeast Alaska Alaska ( ) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is also considered to be the north ... under stones near the low tide mark and is capable of surviving prolonged submersion underwater. Description ''G. admarinus'' grows to about 25 millimeters in length and has around 47 leg pairs. It's characterized by a head longer than it is wide; first maxillae with palpus and inner process both conically pointed and each having typically 5 setae on its ventral face; smooth claws of the second maxillae; concave labrum; median division straight or slightly concave, bearing 5 long, basally dark teeth, and lateral division pectinate; syncoxite bearing a lappet on each side; coxae broadly united with no trace of a median su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geophilus Oligopus
''Geophilus oligopus'' is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae. This centipede is found in several European countries, including Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovenia, and Romania. Although this centipede has been described as having an Alpine- Dinaric distribution, this species has also been found in the Carpathian mountains and may be more widespread than previously thought. Discovery and taxonomy This species was first described by the Austrian myriapodologist Carl Attems in 1895 under the name ''Orinomus oligopus''. The original description of this species is based on specimens from Mount Hochschwab in the Obersteiermark region of Austria. The type specimens were two adults and a juvenile, parts of which are deposited in the form of two slides in the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Although Attems created the genus ''Orinomus'' in 1895 to contain the newly discovered species, he later deemed ''Orinomus'' to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geophilus Bipartitus
''Geophilus bipartitus'' is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae found in Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea .... It grows up to 15 millimeters in length; the males have about 35 leg pairs, the females 39. It lives in Japanese white birch. References bipartitus Animals described in 1937 Centipedes of Japan Endemic fauna of Japan Zoology Taxa named by Yosioki Takakuwa {{Centipede-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geophilus Hadesi
''Geophilus hadesi'' is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae. This centipede is a troglobite, spending its entire life cycle in a cave environment. This species and '' Geophilus persephones'' are the only two troglobites known in the order Geophilomorpha. The species ''G. hadesi'' is named after Hades, god of the underworld in Greek mythology and the husband of Persephone, the namesake of the first troglobite discovered among the soil centipedes. The species ''G. hadesi'' has been observed in a cave as far as 1,100 meters below the surface, the deepest underground that any centipede has ever been recorded. Discovery This species was first described in 2015 by a team of biologists led by the Bulgarian myriapodologist Pavel Stoev of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia, Bulgaria. The original description of this species is based on three specimens collected by biospeleologists in 2011 from three different caves in the Velebit mountains in Croatia. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geophilus Ribauti
''Geophilus '' is a large, heterogeneous genus of soil centipedes in the family Geophilidae largely considered to be synonymous with '' Brachygeophilus''. The generic name first appeared in Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopaedia in 1814 as '' Geophilus electricus''. This genus has a Holarctic distribution. Description This genus is characterized by a claw-shaped ultimate pretarsus, complete or nearly complete coxo-pleural sutures at the prosternum, and incomplete chitin-lines. Centipedes in this genus feature slightly elongate heads and labral intermediate parts with tubercles, the forcipules are usually poorly elongate with a single small tubercle at the base of each tarsungulum, and the anterior trunk metasternites usually have an anterior medial socket and a posterior transversally elongate pore-field. Centipedes in this genus range from about 1 cm to about 8 cm in length. Several species in this genus are notable for their small sizes, including '' G. minimus'' (measuring 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geophilus Persephones
''Geophilus persephones'' is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae discovered in 1999. This species is named after Persephone, the queen of the underworld in Greek mythology, and found in caves in the Gouffre de la Pierre Saint-Martin. It has elongated antennae and legs as well as abundant sensory setae, and like other geophilomorhps it lacks sight, has a flattened trunk, and is well adapted to underground life. This species was the first troglomorphic geophilomorph ever discovered and one of the only two in existence along with ''Geophilus hadesi''. Known from a single male specimen measuring 16.2 mm in length, ''G. persephones'' has only 29 pairs of legs, one of only two species in the Geophilidae family to feature so few leg pairs. See also * ''Geophilus hadesi ''Geophilus hadesi'' is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae. This centipede is a troglobite, spending its entire life cycle in a cave environment. This species and '' Geophilus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geophilus Caucasicus
''Geophilus '' is a large, heterogeneous genus of soil centipedes in the family Geophilidae largely considered to be synonymous with '' Brachygeophilus''. The generic name first appeared in Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopaedia in 1814 as '' Geophilus electricus''. This genus has a Holarctic distribution. Description This genus is characterized by a claw-shaped ultimate pretarsus, complete or nearly complete coxo-pleural sutures at the prosternum, and incomplete chitin-lines. Centipedes in this genus feature slightly elongate heads and labral intermediate parts with tubercles, the forcipules are usually poorly elongate with a single small tubercle at the base of each tarsungulum, and the anterior trunk metasternites usually have an anterior medial socket and a posterior transversally elongate pore-field. Centipedes in this genus range from about 1 cm to about 8 cm in length. Several species in this genus are notable for their small sizes, including '' G. minimus'' (measuring 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
