Lophoturus
| Lophoturus | |
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| Lophoturus boondallus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Order: | Polyxenida |
| Family: | Lophoproctidae |
| Genus: | Lophoturus Brölemann, 1931 |
| Type species | |
| Lophoturus obscurus Brölemann, 1931
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| Diversity | |
| Approx. 27 species | |
Lophoturus is a genus of millipedes belonging to the family Lophoproctidae.[1] Species described after year 2000 include two from Queensland, Australia,[2] three from Christmas Island, Australia,[3] and three from the Caribbean and northern South America.[4]
Species
[edit]There are approximately 27 species:[1][2][3]
- Lophoturus adisi Ishii, Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy & Condé, 1999
- Lophoturus aequatus (Loomis, 1936)
- Lophoturus anisorhabdus (Condé & Terver, 1964)
- Lophoturus boondallus Huynh & Veenstra, 2018
- Lophoturus crassipes Conde & Terver, 1979
- Lophoturus danhomenou (Brölemann, 1926)
- Lophoturus difficilis (Condé & Jacquemin, 1963)
- Lophoturus drifti (Condé & Terver, 1964)
- Lophoturus fluctuans (Condé & Terver, 1964)
- Lophoturus guineensis (Silvestri, 1948)
- Lophoturus hesperius (Condè & Terver, 1963)
- Lophoturus humphreysi Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin 2014
- Lophoturus jianshuiensis Ishii & Yin, 2000
- Lophoturus judsoni Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy, 2002
- Lophoturus longisetis (Pocock, 1894)
- Lophoturus madecassus (Marquet & Condé, 1950)
- Lophoturus molloyensis Huynh & Veenstra, 2018
- Lophoturus monserratensis Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy, 2002
- Lophoturus niveus (Loomis, 1934)
- Lophoturus obscurus (Brölemann, 1931)
- Lophoturus okinawai (Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin & Condé, 1982)
- Lophoturus peruanus (Silvestri, 1949)
- Lophoturus quebradanus (Chamberlin, 1955)
- Lophoturus queenslandicus (Verhoeff, 1924)
- Lophoturus speophilus Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin 2014
- Lophoturus sturmi Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy, 2002
- Lophoturus vicarius Conde & Terver, 1979
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Lophoturus Brölemann, 1931". MilliBase taxon details. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ a b Huynh, Cuong; Veenstra, Anneke A. (2018). "Two new Lophoturus species (Diplopoda, Polyxenida, Lophoproctidae) from Queensland, Australia". ZooKeys (741): 133–154. doi:10.3897/zookeys.741.21814. PMC 5904426. PMID 29706774. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ a b Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, Monique (2014). "Two new species of Lophoturus (Diplopoda, Penicillata, Lophoproctidae) from caves in Christmas Island, Australia, including the second troglomorph in Penicillata". Zoosystema. 36: 29–39. doi:10.5252/z2014n1a2. S2CID 84884342.
- ^ Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, Monique (2002). "New species and distribution of the genera Lophoturus and Ancistroxenus (Myriapoda, Diplopoda, Penicillata) in the Caribbean and northern South America" (PDF). Zoosystema. 24 (2): 451–470.