Scutigeromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha) of the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola
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The fauna of scutigeromorph centipedes in the Dominican Republic is studied for the first time based on a sample of 28 individuals collected at 21 localities in 12 provinces. This sample was found to represent two species: Sphendononema guildingii (Newport, 1844) and Dendrothereua linceci (Wood, 1867), both species with a wide geographic distribution in the Caribbean and tropical America. The widely introduced and synanthropic species of Mediterranean origin Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758) has never been found in Hispaniola. The scutigeromorph centipedes found as fossilized inclusions in the Dominican amber remain to be properly studied and identified.
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Scutigeras, centipedes, Scutigeromorpha, Chilopoda, fauna, amber fossils, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Caribbean
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Chamberlin, R. V. 1918. The Chilopoda and Diplopoda of the West Indies. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 62: 149-262.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1921. Results of the Bryant Walker expeditions of the University of Michigan to Columbia 1913 and British Guiana 1914. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 97: 1-28.
Edgecombe, G. D. 2007. Centipede systematics: progress and problems. Zootaxa, 1668: 327341.
Edgecombe, G. D. 2011. Chilopoda – The fossil history, p. 355-361. In: Minelli, A. (ed.), Treatise on Zoology – The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.
Edgecombe, G. D. and F. G. Cupul-Magaña. 2008. Primer registro de Scutigera linceci (Wood, 1867) para Jalisco y anotaciones sobre los escutigeromorfos de México (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha: Scutigeridae). Dugesiana, 15: 17-19.
Edgecombe, G. D. and G. Giribet. 2009. Phylogenetics of scutigeromorph centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) with implications for species delimitation and historical biogeography of the Australian and New Caledonian faunas. Cladistics, 25: 406-427.
Iturralde Vinent, M. A. 2001. Geology of the amber bearing deposits of the Greater Antilles. Caribbean Journal of Science, 37: 141-167.
Iturralde Vinent, M. A. and R. D. E. MacPhee. 1996. Age and paleogeographical origin of Dominican amber. Science, 273: 1850-1852.
Iturralde Vinent, M. A. and R. D. E. MacPhee. 1999. Paleogeography of the Caribbean region: implications for Cenozoic biogeography. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 238: 1-95.
Lazell, J. 2005. Island: Fact and Theory in Nature. University of California Press, Berkeley, 382 pp.
Muchmore, W. B. 1993. List of terrestrial invertebrates of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (exclusive of Acarina and Insecta), with some records of freshwater species. Caribbean Journal of Science, 29: 30-38.
Peck, S. B. 1992. A synopsis of the invertebrate cave fauna of Jamaica. The National Speleological Society Bulletin, 54: 37-60.
Penney, D. 2010. Dominican amber, pp. 22-41. In: Penney, D. (Ed.) Biodiversity of Fossils in Amber from the Major World Deposits. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester.
Poinar, G. O., Jr. 1992. Life in Amber. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 350 pp.
Sánchez, A. Father Sánchez’s Web Site of West Indian Natural History. http:www.kingsnake. com/westindian. Accessed August 2012.
Shear, W. A., A. J. Jeram and P. A. Selden. 1998. Centipede legs (Arthropoda, Chilopoda, Scutigeromorpha) from the Silurian and Devonian of Britain and the Devonian of North America. American Museum Novitates, 3231: 1-16.
Stoev, P. and J. J. Geoffroy. 2004. An annotated catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the collection of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha). Zootaxa, 635: 1-12.
Verhoeff, K. W. 1904. Uber Gattungen der Spinnenasseln (Scutigeriden). Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft naturforschenden Freunde, Berlin, 1904 (10): 245-285.
Wood, H. C. 1867. Descriptions of new species of Texan Myriapoda. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 19: 42-44.
Wu, R. J. C. 1997. Secrets of a Lost World: Dominican amber and its Inclusions. Privately published, Santo Domingo, 222 pp.
Würmli, M. 1973. Die Scutigeromorpha (Chilopoda) von Costa Rica. Ueber Dendrothereua arborum Verhoeff, 1944. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 8: 75-80.
Würmli, M. 1974. Systematic criteria in the Scutigeromorpha. (pp. 89-98). In: Blower, J. G. (Ed.). Myriapoda. Symposium of the Zoological Society of London, 32.
Würmli, M. 1978. Synopsis der neotropischen Pselliodidae (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha). Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 13: 135-142.
Würmli, M. 2005. Revision der afrikanischen Pselliodiden (Chilopoda: Scutigerida: Pselliodidae). Schubartiana, 1: 3-8.
Würmli, M. and S. Negrea. 1977. Les scutigéromorphes de l’ile de Cuba (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha). Fragmenta Faunistica, 23: 75-81
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Pérez-Gelabert, D. E., & Edgecombe, G. D. (2013). Scutigeromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha) of the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola. Novitates Caribaea, (6), 36–44. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i6.105
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