Paracryptops

Paracryptops
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Scolopendromorpha
Family: Cryptopidae
Genus: Paracryptops
Pocock, 1891
Type species
Paracryptops weberi
Pocock,1891

Paracryptops is a genus of centipedes in the family Cryptopidae. It was described in 1891 by British myriapodologist Reginald Innes Pocock.

Species

There are five valid species:

References

  1. 1 2 Pocock, RI (1891). "Notes on the synonymy of some species of Scolopendridae with descriptions of new genera and species of the group". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (6) 7: 51–58, 221–231 [227].
  2. 1 2 Bonato L.; Chagas Junior A.; Edgecombe G.D.; Lewis J.G.E.; Minelli A.; Pereira L.A.; Shelley R.M.; Stoev P.; Zapparoli M. (2016). "ChiloBase 2.0". A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese, University of Padua. Retrieved 15 April 2023.