| Selenocheir sinuata | |
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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 | |
Selenocheir sinuata is a species of flat-backed millipede in the family Xystodesmidae, endemic to Northern California. 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
Description
Selenocheir 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.
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.
References
- "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.
- ^ 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
- 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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