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Aphilodon

Aphilodon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Geophilidae
Subfamily: Aphilodontinae
Genus: Aphilodon
Silvestri, 1898
Type species
Aphilodon spegazzinii
Silvestri, 1898
Synonyms
  • Brasilophilus Verhoeff, 1908
  • Mecistauchenus Brölemann, 1907

Aphilodon is a genus of soil centipedes in the subfamily Aphilodontinae, a clade formerly known as the family Aphilodontidae[1] but now deemed a subfamily within the family Geophilidae.[2][3] These centipedes are found in South America.[2] This genus includes sixteen species and is the most diverse of the Neotropical genera in the subfamily Aphilodontinae.[4]

  1. ^ Bonato, Lucio; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Zapparoli, Marzio (2011). "Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview". In Minelli, Alessandro (ed.). The Myriapoda. Volume 1. Leiden: Brill. pp. 363–443 [407-408]. ISBN 978-90-04-18826-6. OCLC 812207443.
  2. ^ a b Calvanese, Victor C.; Brescovit, Antonio D.; Bonato, Lucio (2019-11-15). "Revision of the Neotropical species of Aphilodontinae (Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae), with eight new species and a first phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily". Zootaxa. 4698 (1): 1–72 [4, 9–11, 20–21, 41–46, 54–55, 57, 69–70]. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4698.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
  3. ^ Bonato, L.; Chagas Junior, A.; Edgecombe, G.D.; Lewis, J.G.E.; Minelli, A.; Pereira, L.A.; Shelley, R.M.; Stoev, P.; Zapparoli, M. (2016). "Aphilodon Silvestri, 1898". ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Retrieved 2024-12-27.
  4. ^ Calvanese, Victor C.; Brescovit, Antonio D. (7 March 2022). "Six new species of Aphilodon centipedes (Geophilidae: Aphilodontinae) from Brazil". Zootaxa. 5105 (4): 539–558 [539–541, 543–544, 547, 549, 552]. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5105.4.4. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 35391288.

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