The Cryptopidae are a family of scolopendromorph centipedes. Cryptopids are blind (lacking ocelli) and possess 21 pairs of legs.[1] The genus Cryptops is the numerically largest in the family, comprising over 150 species worldwide.[2]
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| Cryptops hortensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Chilopoda |
| Order: | Scolopendromorpha |
| Family: | Cryptopidae Kohlrausch, 1881 |
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Classification
editThe following genera, may be included:[3][4]
- Cryptops Leach, 1814
- Eremops Bollman, 1893
- Mimops Kraepelin, 1903
- Paracryptops Pocock, 1891
- Tonkinodentus Schileyko, 1992
- Trigonocryptops Verhoeff, 1906
The genera Plutonium and Theatops Newport, 1844, formerly classified in the cryptopid subfamily Plutoniuminae, are now placed in the recently elevated family Plutoniumidae.[5]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Balan, Dhanya; P.M. Sureshan; Vinod Khanna (2012). "A new species of centipede of the genus Cryptops Leach (Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae) from southern Western Ghats with a key to the species of Cryptops in India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 4 (4): 2510–2514. doi:10.11609/jott.o3035.2510-4.
- ^ GBIF: Family Cryptopidae
- ^ Minelli, A.; Bonato, L.; Dioguardi, R.; et al. "Chilobase: a web resource for Chilopoda taxonomy". Archived from the original on 23 April 2011. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
- ^ Di, Zhiyong; Cao, Zhijian; Wu, Yingliang; Yin, Shijin; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Li, Wenxin (2010). "Discovery of the centipede family Plutoniumidae (Chilopoda) in Asia: A new species of Theatops from China, and the taxonomic value of spiracle distributions in Scolopendromorpha". Zootaxa. 2667: 51–63. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2667.1.4 – via ResearchGate.