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Hiltonius Erythrotypus
''Hiltonius'' is a genus of cylindrical millipedes in the family Spirobolidae comprising 10 species ranging from the southwestern United States to Guatemala, with most species being found in Mexico. The genus was named by Ralph Vary Chamberlin in 1918, after Professor William A. Hilton of Pomona College who collected the type specimen of ''H. pulchrus''. Description Species of ''Hiltonius'' range from long and wide, with 40–49 body segments. The eyes are composed of patches of ocelli, widely spaced, containing 21 to 37 ocelli per patch. The legs are short, usually not reaching the sides of the body when held horizontally. Like many other spirobolids, color ranges from brown to nearly black, and thin bands of red or yellow may occur on the rear margins of each segment. Species ''Hiltonius'' contains 10 named species. Some have wide distributions while others are known only from the type locality- the place where the type specimens were initially discovered. The northernmost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Vary Chamberlin
Ralph Vary Chamberlin (January 3, 1879October 31, 1967) was an American biologist, Ethnography, ethnographer, and historian from Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a faculty member of the University of Utah for over 25 years, where he helped establish the University of Utah School of Medicine, School of Medicine and served as its first dean, and later became head of the zoology department. He also taught at Brigham Young University and the University of Pennsylvania, and worked for over a decade at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, where he described species from around the world. Chamberlin was a prolific Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist who named over 4,000 new animal species in over 400 scientific publications. He specialized in arachnids (spiders, scorpions, and relatives) and Myriapoda, myriapods (centipedes, millipedes, and relatives), ranking among the most prolific Arachnology, arachnologists and Myriapodology, myriapodologists in history. He described over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
