Scolopocryptopidae is a
family
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centipede
Centipedes (from New Latin , "hundred", and Latin , " foot") are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda (Ancient Greek , ''kheilos'', lip, and New Latin suffix , "foot", describing the forcipules) of the subphylum Myriapoda, an ...
s.
The number of leg-bearing segments is fixed at 23 for species in this family, which distinguishes the species in this family from all other centipede species.
Genera
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Dinocryptops''
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Ectonocryptoides''
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Ectonocryptops''
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Kartops''
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Kethops''
* ''
Newportia
''Newportia'' is a genus
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Scolopocryptops
''Scolopocryptops'' is a genus of bark centipedes in the family Scolopocryptopidae. There are at least 20 described species in ''Scolopocryptops''.
Species
These 22 species belong to the genus ''Scolopocryptops'':
* '' Scolopocryptops aberra ...
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Thalkethops''
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Tidops''
File:Scolopocryptops troglocaudatus Gruna do Cantinho Cave.jpg, alt=, Scolopocryptos troglocaudatus
File:Newportia stoevi 2012 1-4.jpg, alt=, Newportia stoevi
File:Scolopocryptops sexspinosus - inat 65004327.jpg, alt=, Scolopocryptops sexspinosus
File:Newportia spelaea (10.3897-subtbiol.19.8207) Figure 3 (cropped).jpg, alt=, Newportia spelaea
References
External links
Encyclopedia of Life entry
Centipede families
Scolopendromorpha
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