''Chamberlineptus morechalensis'', the sole species of the genus ''Chamberlineptus'' is a

spirostreptid Spirostreptidae is a family of millipedes in the order Spirostreptida. It contains around 100 genera distributed in North and South America, the eastern Mediterranean, continental Africa, Madagascar, and Seychelles. It contains the following g ...

millipede Millipedes 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 derived from this feature. Each double-legged segment is a re ...

from Venezuela. Individuals are around long and in diameter. ''C. morechalensis'' was described in 1954 by Nell B. Causey, described as similar to the spirostrpetid '' Andineptus'' in the structure of the

gonopods Gonopods are specialized appendages of various arthropods used in reproduction or egg-laying. In males, they facilitate the transfer of sperm from male to female during mating, and thus are a type of intromittent organ. In crustaceans and millipe ...

(male reproductive appendages). However, J. M. Demange (1970) and Jean-Paul Mauriès (1975) considered both ''Chamberlineptus'' and ''Andineptus'' to be

taxonomic synonym The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linna ...

s, or at least

subgenera In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus. In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed betwee ...

, of ''

Orthoporus ''Orthoporus'' is a genus of spirostreptid millipedes, containing around 80 species, distributed from the southern United States to Brazil and Argentina. * '' Orthoporus absconsus'' Chamberlin, 1922 * '' Orthoporus acanthethus'' Chamberlin, 1947 ...

''.

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Spirostreptida Millipedes of South America Invertebrates of Venezuela Monotypic arthropod genera {{Myriapoda-stub