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Tuoba (centipede)
''Tuoba'' is a genus of 17 species of centipedes, in the family (biology), family Geophilidae. This genus was described by American biology, biologist Ralph Vary Chamberlin in 1920. These centipedes are found in coastal regions and islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and in the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean, Indian oceans. Description Centipedes in this genus feature short forcipules with a Denticle (tooth feature), denticle at the base of each tarsungulum, anterior trunk metasternites with an anterior medial socket and a posterior transverse band of pores, and leg claws with an especially elongate basal spine; the coxal organs open into a single ventral pit on each coxopleuron. These centipedes range from about 2 cm to about 5 cm in length and have 39 to 73 pairs of legs. The Japanese species ''Tuoba japonicus'', with 41 to 51 leg pairs in each sex, is notable for its small size, reaching a maximum length of only 17 ... [...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] |
