| Lophoturus | |
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| Lophoturus boondallus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Order: | Polyxenida |
| Family: | Lophoproctidae |
| Genus: | Lophoturus Brölemann, 1931 |
| Type species | |
| Lophoturus obscurus Brölemann, 1931
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| Diversity | |
| Approx. 27 species | |
Lophoturus is a genus of millipedes belonging to the family Lophoproctidae.1 Species described after year 2000 include two from Queensland, Australia,2 three from Christmas Island, Australia,3 and three from the Caribbean and northern South America.4
Species
There are approximately 27 species:123
- Lophoturus adisi Ishii, Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy & Condé, 1999
- Lophoturus aequatus (Loomis, 1936)
- Lophoturus anisorhabdus (Condé & Terver, 1964)
- Lophoturus boondallus Huynh & Veenstra, 2018
- Lophoturus crassipes Conde & Terver, 1979
- Lophoturus danhomenou (Brölemann, 1926)
- Lophoturus difficilis (Condé & Jacquemin, 1963)
- Lophoturus drifti (Condé & Terver, 1964)
- Lophoturus fluctuans (Condé & Terver, 1964)
- Lophoturus guineensis (Silvestri, 1948)
- Lophoturus hesperius (Condè & Terver, 1963)
- Lophoturus humphreysi Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin 2014
- Lophoturus jianshuiensis Ishii & Yin, 2000
- Lophoturus judsoni Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy, 2002
- Lophoturus longisetis (Pocock, 1894)
- Lophoturus madecassus (Marquet & Condé, 1950)
- Lophoturus molloyensis Huynh & Veenstra, 2018
- Lophoturus monserratensis Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy, 2002
- Lophoturus niveus (Loomis, 1934)
- Lophoturus obscurus (Brölemann, 1931)
- Lophoturus okinawai (Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin & Condé, 1982)
- Lophoturus peruanus (Silvestri, 1949)
- Lophoturus quebradanus (Chamberlin, 1955)
- Lophoturus queenslandicus (Verhoeff, 1924)
- Lophoturus speophilus Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin 2014
- Lophoturus sturmi Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy, 2002
- Lophoturus vicarius Conde & Terver, 1979
References
References
- "Lophoturus Brölemann, 1931". MilliBase taxon details. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- Huynh, Cuong; Veenstra, Anneke A. (2018). "Two new Lophoturus species (Diplopoda, Polyxenida, Lophoproctidae) from Queensland, Australia". ZooKeys (741): 133–154. doi:10.3897/zookeys.741.21814. PMC 5904426. PMID 29706774. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, Monique (2014). "Two new species of Lophoturus (Diplopoda, Penicillata, Lophoproctidae) from caves in Christmas Island, Australia, including the second troglomorph in Penicillata". Zoosystema. 36: 29–39. doi:10.5252/z2014n1a2. S2CID 84884342.
- Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, Monique (2002). "New species and distribution of the genera Lophoturus and Ancistroxenus (Myriapoda, Diplopoda, Penicillata) in the Caribbean and northern South America" (PDF). Zoosystema. 24 (2): 451–470.