Scutigeromorpha
| Description | Centipedes (from the New Latin prefix centi-, "hundred", and the Latin word pes, pedis, "foot") are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda of the subphylum Myriapoda, an arthropod group which also includes millipedes and other multi-legged creatures. Centipedes are elongated metameric creatures with one pair of legs per body segment. Most centipedes are generally venomous and could inflict a painful bite, injecting their venom through pincer-like appendage known as forcipules. Despite the name, centipedes can have a varying number of legs, ranging from 30 to 354. Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs. Therefore, no centipede has exactly 100 legs. Similar to spiders and scorpions, centipedes are predominantly carnivorous. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigeromorpha, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Chilopoda : Scutigeromorpha | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Scutigeromorpha | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Spindelfotingar, ゲジ, House Centipedes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigeromorpha |
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Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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 Crussolidae âśťfamily | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 2 | 411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian | 411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian | |
| Pselliodidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Scutigeridae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 3 | 122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Scutigerinidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
| Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas |
| Andersson, Meidell, A, Scheller, Winqvist, Osterkamp Madsen, Djursvoll, Budd & Gärdenfors (2005) Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna. Mångfotingar. Myriapoda. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas |
| Stoev, Pavel, and Jean-Jacques Geoffroy, 2004: An annotated catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the collection of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha). Zootaxa, no. 635. 1-12. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Cupul-Magaña, Fabio Germán, 2011: Centipedes (Myriapoda, Chilopoda) of Biologia Centrali-Americana: Current status of the names. International Journal of Myriapodology, vol. 5. 55-62. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
