Pselliodidae

Pselliodidae is a family of small centipedes, closely related to house centipedes.

Pselliodidae
Sphendononema guildingii
Sphendononema guildingii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Chilopoda
Order:	Scutigeromorpha
Family:	Pselliodidae Chamberlin, 1955
Type genus
Pselliodes Chamberlin, 1921[1]

Genera and species

As of 2017^[update], the Integrated Taxonomic Information System recognizes the following genera and species in Pselliodidae:^[2]

• Gonethella Chamberlin, 1918^[3]: 165
  • Gonethella nesiotes Chamberlin 1918^{[3]: 165–166}
• Gonethina Chamberlin, 1918^[3]: 166
  • Gonethina fijiana Chamberlin 1920^{[4]: 80–81}
  • Gonethina grenadensis Chamberlin 1918^{[3]: 166–167}
• Sphendononema Verhoeff, 1904^{[5]: 259–261}
  • Sphendononema chagualensis (Kraus, 1957)
  • Sphendononema guildingii (Newport, 1845)^[6]: 356
  • Sphendononema rugosa (Newport, 1844)^[7]: 95

In contrast, Gregory D. Edgecombe [de] wrote this family comprises "at least three species in a single genus", only mentioning the genus Sphendononema and the species S. guildingii and S. rugosa.^[8]

References

1. Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1921). "Results of the Bryant Walker Expeditions of the University of Michigan to Colombia, 1913, and British Guiana, 1914: The Chilopoda". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. 97: 25. hdl:2027.42/56536.
2. "Pselliodidae Chamberlin, 1955". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
3. Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1918). "The Chilopoda and Diplopoda of the West Indies". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 62 (5): 149–262.
4. Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1920). "The Myriopoda of the Australian Region". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 64 (1): 1–270.
5. Verhoeff, Karl W. (1904). "Ueber Gattungen der Spinnenasseln (Scutigeriden)". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1904 (10): 245–285.
6. Newport, George (1845). "Monograph of the Class Myriapoda, Order Chilopoda; with Observations on the General Arrangement of the Articulata". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 19 (3): 265–302. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1842.tb00368.x.
7. Newport, George (1844). "A List of the species of Myriapoda, Order Chilopoda, contained in the Cabinets of the British Museum, with synoptic descriptions of forty-seven new Species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 13 (82): 94–101. doi:10.1080/03745484409442576.
8. Edgecombe, Gregory D. (2011). "Chilopoda—Taxonomic Overview: Order Scutigeromorpha". In Milenni, Alessandro (ed.). Treatise on Zoology—Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology: The Myriapoda. Vol. 1. Leiden: Brill. pp. 364–366. doi:10.1163/9789004188266_020.

Further reading

• Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Giribet, Gonzalo (2006). "A century later – a total evidence re-evaluation of the phylogeny of scutigeromorph centipedes (Myriapoda : Chilopoda)". Invertebrate Systematics. 20 (5): 503–525. doi:10.1071/IS05044.
• Würmli, Marcus (1978). "Synopsis der neotropischen Pselliodidae (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha)". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. 13 (2): 135–142. doi:10.1080/01650527809360536.
• Würmli, Marcus (2005). "Revision der afrikanischen Pselliodiden (Chilopoda: Scutigerida: Pselliodidae)" (PDF). Schubartiana. 1: 3–8.