Selenocheir sinuata is a species of flat-backed millipede in the family Xystodesmidae, endemic to Northern California. [1][2][3][4] The Species was first described by Rowland M. Shelley in 1994 based on samples collected by J. S. Buckett and M. R. Gardner in 1966[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Order: | Polydesmida |
| Family: | Xystodesmidae |
| Genus: | Selenocheir |
| Species: | S. sinuata
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| Selenocheir sinuata Shelley, 1994
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Description
editSelenocheir sinuata often has a banded color pattern with black metaterga and reddish to orange/yellow tergites. The color on the tergites is also sometimes incomplete with the paranota and central portion of the tergites having color and the mid portions to either side black.[5]
Populations of S sinuata are found in the foothills bordering the northern portions of the Sacramento Valley from Humboldt county east to Shasta county and south to El Dorado county.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Selenocheir sinuata". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Selenocheir sinuata". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Selenocheir sinuata species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Shelley, R. M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ^ a b c Shelley, Rowland M. (1994). "The Chonaphini, a biogeographically significant milliped tribe in eastern and western North America (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)". Brimleyana. 20: 111–200.
Further reading
edit- Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. Vol. 8. ISBN 9781884549120.
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