''Anombrocheir'' is a genus of
millipedes
Millipedes (originating from the Latin , "thousand", and , "foot") are a group of arthropods that are characterised by having two pairs of jointed legs on most body segments; they are known scientifically as the class Diplopoda, the name derive ...
belonging to the family
Xystodesmidae
Xystodesmidae is a family of millipedes in the suborder Leptodesmidea within the order Polydesmida (the "flat-backed" or "keeled" millipedes). The family Xystodesmidae was created by the American biologist Orator F. Cook in 1895 and named after ...
.
The species of this genus are
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to California where they are found in the inner Coastal mountain range of
Colusa and
Glenn counties.
The genus was erected by J.S. Buckett and M.R. Gardner in 1969 based on samples of the
type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
, ''A. spinosa,'' collected in December of 1965.
The species of this genus are differentiated from those of other
Xystocheirini by the presence of an exceptionally large telopodite of the male gonopod.
Species:
*''
Anombrocheir bifurcata''
*''
Anombrocheir spinosa''
References
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Xystodesmidae