| Ribautia | |
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| Ribautia sp. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Chilopoda |
| Order: | Geophilomorpha |
| Family: | Geophilidae |
| Genus: | Ribautia Brölemann, 1909[1] |
| Type species | |
| Ribautia bouvieri Brölemann, 1909 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ribautia is a genus of centipedes in the family Geophilidae. It was described by French myriapodologist Henry Wilfred Brolemann in 1909.[2] Centipedes in this genus are found in South America, tropical Africa, Madagascar, the Arabian peninsula, Australia, New Zealand, and Melanesia.[3]
Description
Centipedes in this genus range from about 1 cm to about 7 cm in length and can have as few as 31 or as many as 125 pairs of legs.[3] The species Ribautia platensis[2] measures only 9 mm in length can have as few as 31 leg pairs (31 pairs in males, 31 or 33 in females),[4] which is the minimum number found in this genus.[3] The species Ribautia taeniata can reach 75 mm in length and can have as many as 125 leg pairs (105 to 121 pairs in males, 111 to 125 in females),[5] which is the maximum number found in this genus.[3]
Species
There are over 50 valid species,[2] including:
- Ribautia aggregata (Brölemann, 1915)
- Ribautia brittini (Archey,1922)
- Ribautia coarctata Ribaut, 1923
- Ribautia conifera (Attems, 1911)
- Ribautia derrana (Chamberlin, 1920)
- Ribautia dietrichiae (Verhoeff, 1925)
- Ribautia gracilis Ribaut, 1923
- Ribautia imparata (Attems, 1911)
- Ribautia mjoebergi (Verhoeff, 1925)
- Ribautia pruvotae (Brolemann, 1931)
- Ribautia rainbowi (Brölemann, 1912)
- Ribautia repanda (Attems, 1911)
- Ribautia taeniata Ribaut, 1923
- Ribautia wheeleri (Chamberlin, 1920)
References
- ↑ Brölemann, HW (1909). "À propos d'un système des géophilomorphes". Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale. 5 (3): 303–340 [335].
- 1 2 3 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 24 February 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - 1 2 3 4 Bonato, Lucio; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Zapparoli, Marzio (2011). "Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview". In Minelli, Alessandro (ed.). The Myriapoda. Volume 1. Leiden: Brill. pp. 363–443. ISBN 978-90-04-18826-6. OCLC 812207443.
- ↑ Silvestri, F. (1898). "Nova Geophiloidea Argentina". Comunicaciones del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires (in Latin). 1 (2): 39–40 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ↑ Attems, Carl (1929). Attems, Karl (ed.). Lfg. 52 Myriapoda, 1: Geophilomorpha (in German). De Gruyter. p. 289. doi:10.1515/9783111430638. ISBN 978-3-11-143063-8.