Chamberlineptus

Chamberlineptus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Spirostreptida
Family: Spirostreptidae
Genus: Chamberlineptus
Causey, 1954
Species:
C. morechalensis
Binomial name
Chamberlineptus morechalensis
Causey, 1954

Chamberlineptus morechalensis, the sole species of the genus Chamberlineptus is a spirostreptid millipede from Venezuela. Individuals are around 10 cm (3.9 in) long and 5.4 to 7 mm (0.21 to 0.28 in) in diameter. C. morechalensis was described in 1954 by Nell B. Causey, described as similar to the spirostreptid Andineptus in the structure of the gonopods (male reproductive appendages). However, J. M. Demange (1970) and Jean-Paul Mauriès (1975) considered both Chamberlineptus and Andineptus to be taxonomic synonyms, or at least subgenera, of Orthoporus.

References

  1. 1 2 Causey, Nell B. (1954). "New Mexican and Venezuelan millipeds in the collection of the Illinois State Natural History Survey". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 67: 55–68.
  2. ↑ Demange, J. M. (1970). "Éléments d'une révision des Spirostreptidae. I. Étude de quelques caractères taxonomiques des Spirostreptinae". Bull. Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire Dakar, A. 32 (2): 366–411.
  3. ↑ Mauriès, Jean-Paul (1975). "Spirostreptides (Myriapodes-Diplopoda) de Guyane française. Description de deux genres nouveaux. Compléments aux diagnoses des types d'espèces sud-américaines" (PDF). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 3rd series (in French and English). Zoologie 235 (333): 1257–1275.