Lophoturus

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]

Lophoturus
Lophoturus boondallus
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Lophoturus

Brölemann, 1931
Species:
Approx. 27 species
Type species
Lophoturus obscurus
Brölemann, 1931

Species

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

  1. "Lophoturus Brölemann, 1931". MilliBase taxon details. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  2. 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. PMID 29706774. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
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