Dignathodontidae is a monophyletic clade of soil centipedes in the family Geophilidae[1] found in the Mediterranean region, extending to Macaronesia, Caucasus, and western and central Europe. The clade is characterized by a gradually anteriorly tapered body, a short head with non-attenuated antennae, and a poorly sclerotized labrum with tubercles.[2] The number of legs in this clade varies within as well as among species and ranges from 43 pairs (in Henia brevis[3]) to 153 pairs of legs (in Henia devia[4]).[2] Species in this clade tend to have more leg-bearing segments and greater intraspecific variability in this number than generally found in the family Geophilidae.[5]
| Dignathodontidae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Chilopoda |
| Order: | Geophilomorpha |
| Family: | Dignathodontidae Cook, 1896 |
Genera:[6]
- Agnathodon Folkmanová & Dobroruka, 1960
- Dignathodon Meinert, 1870
- Henia Koch, 1847
- Pagotaenia Chamberlin, 1915
- Zygophilus Chamberlin, 1952
References
edit- ^ Bonato, Lucio; Drago, Leandro; Murienne, Jerome (2014). "Phylogeny of Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) inferred from new morphological and molecular evidence". Cladistics. The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society. 30 (5): 485–507. doi:10.1111/cla.12060. PMID 34794246. S2CID 86204188. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ a b Minelli, Alessandro (2011). Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill. pp. 410–413. ISBN 978-90-04-15611-1. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ Iorio, Etienne; Quindroit, Clovis (2018). "New Records of Henia (Chaetechelyne) Duboscqui (Verhoeff, 1943) and of Other Centipedes from Corsica (Chilopoda) Together with Some Notes on the French Species of Henia" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod Group. 30: 71-83 [75-77].
- ^ Attems, Carl (1929). Attems, Karl (ed.). Lfg. 52 Myriapoda, 1: Geophilomorpha (in German). De Gruyter. p. 233. doi:10.1515/9783111430638. ISBN 978-3-11-143063-8.
- ^ Minelli, Alessandro; Bortoletto, Stefano (1988-04-01). "Myriapod metamerism and arthropod segmentation". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 33 (4): 323–343. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1988.tb00448.x. ISSN 0024-4066.
- ^ "Dignathodontidae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 4 June 2021.