Opisthocheiridae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Chordeumatida
Superfamily: Cleidogonoidea
Family: Opisthocheiridae

Opisthocheiridae is a family of millipedes belonging to the order Chordeumatida.[1] These millipedes range from 5 mm to 16 mm in length and are found from Belgium to Morocco.[2] Adult millipedes in this family have 26 or 30 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last).[3][2] This family includes the cave-dwelling species Opisthocheiron canayerensis, notable as one of few chordeumatidan species with only 26 segments.[4][3] The adult female of this species has only 42 pairs of legs, and the adult male has only 40 leg pairs,[4] as one would expect for adult chordeumatidans with four fewer segments than typically found in this order.[3]

Genera:[1]

  • Brachytropisoma Silvestri, 1898
  • Ceratosphys Ribaut, 1920
  • Fuentea Brölemann, 1920
  • Haplosphys Ribaut, 1920
  • Hispaniodesmus Verhoeff, 1910
  • Hispaniosoma Ribaut, 1913
  • Marquetia Ribaut, 1905
  • Marquetiella Jeekel, 1969
  • Opisthocheiron Ribaut, 1913
  • Proceratosphys Mauriès & Vicente, 1977
  • Sireuma Reboleira & Enghoff, 2014

References

  1. 1 2 "Opisthocheiridae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (2015-01-01). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview". Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017.
  3. 1 2 3 Enghoff, Henrik; Dohle, Wolfgang; Blower, J. Gordon (1993). "Anamorphosis in Millipedes (Diplopoda) — The Present State of Knowledge with Some Developmental and Phylogenetic Considerations". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 109: 103–234.
  4. 1 2 Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques (1984). "Particularités du Développement Post-embryonaire du Diplopode Craspedosomide Cavernicole Opisthocheiron canayerensis". Mémoires de Biospéologie (in French). 11: 211–220.
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