Pselliodidae

Pselliodidae
	Sphendononema guildingii
	Sphendononema guildingii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Chilopoda
Order:	Scutigeromorpha
Family:	Pselliodidae; Chamberlin, 1955
Type genus
	Pselliodes; Chamberlin, 1921

Pselliodidae is a family of small centipedes, closely related to house centipedes.

Genera and species

As of 2017^[update], the Integrated Taxonomic Information System recognizes the following genera and species in Pselliodidae:^[2]

Gonethella Chamberlin, 1918^[3]^: 165
- Gonethella nesiotes Chamberlin 1918^[3]^{: 165–166}
Gonethina Chamberlin, 1918^[3]^: 166
- Gonethina fijiana Chamberlin 1920^[4]^: 80–81
- Gonethina grenadensis Chamberlin 1918^[3]^{: 166–167}
Sphendononema Verhoeff, 1904^[5]^{: 259–261}
- Sphendononema chagualensis (Kraus, 1957)
- Sphendononema guildingii (Newport, 1845)^[6]^: 356
- Sphendononema rugosa (Newport, 1844)^[7]^: 95

In contrast, Gregory D. Edgecombe [de] wrote this family comprises "at least three species in a single genus", only mentioning the genus Sphendononema and the species S. guildingii and S. rugosa.^[8]

References

^ Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1921). "Results of the Bryant Walker Expeditions of the University of Michigan to Colombia, 1913, and British Guiana, 1914: The Chilopoda". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. 97: 25. hdl:2027.42/56536.
^ "Pselliodidae Chamberlin, 1955". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1918). "The Chilopoda and Diplopoda of the West Indies". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 62 (5): 149–262.
^ Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1920). "The Myriopoda of the Australian Region". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 64 (1): 1–270.
^ Verhoeff, Karl W. (1904). "Ueber Gattungen der Spinnenasseln (Scutigeriden)". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1904 (10): 245–285.
^ Newport, George (1845). "Monograph of the Class Myriapoda, Order Chilopoda; with Observations on the General Arrangement of the Articulata". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 19 (3): 265–302. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1842.tb00368.x.
^ Newport, George (1844). "A List of the species of Myriapoda, Order Chilopoda, contained in the Cabinets of the British Museum, with synoptic descriptions of forty-seven new Species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 13 (82): 94–101. doi:10.1080/03745484409442576.
^ Edgecombe, Gregory D. (2011). "Chilopoda—Taxonomic Overview: Order Scutigeromorpha". In Milenni, Alessandro (ed.). Treatise on Zoology—Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology: The Myriapoda. Vol. 1. Leiden: Brill. pp. 364–366. doi:10.1163/9789004188266_020.

Genera and species

References

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