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Cave Diplopoda of southern China with reference to millipede diversity in Southeast Asia
Abstract. The diversity of Diplopoda in caves of southern China is remarkably high, often 5–6 species per cave, consisting mostly of local endemics and presumed troglobionts. These are evidently biased to just a few lineages, mainly members of the orders Chordeumatida and Callipodida, the families C...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4523766/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26257536 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.510.8640 |
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description | Abstract. The diversity of Diplopoda in caves of southern China is remarkably high, often 5–6 species per cave, consisting mostly of local endemics and presumed troglobionts. These are evidently biased to just a few lineages, mainly members of the orders Chordeumatida and Callipodida, the families Cambalopsidae (Spirostreptida) and Haplodesmidae (Polydesmida) or the genera Pacidesmus, Epanerchodus and Glenniea (all Polydesmida, Polydesmidae), Trichopeltis (Polydesmida, Cryptodesmidae), Dexmoxytes (Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) and Hyleoglomeris (Glomerida, Glomeridae). All these taxa, especially the Paradoxosomatidae and Cambalopsidae (usually amounting to about 60% and 10% of the total species diversity in the Oriental fauna, respectively), are moderately to highly speciose across Southeast Asia, being largely epigean. However, the epigean Diplopoda of southern China are yet badly understudied, since much of the collecting and taxonomic exploration efforts still focus on cavernicoles. The Oriental Region is the only biogeographic realm globally that harbours all 16 orders of Diplopoda, of which 14 have already been encountered in China and/or the immediately adjacent parts of Indochina. Thus, China may actually prove to support no less than 1,000 millipede species of various origins, mainly Oriental and Palaearctic. |
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spelling | pubmed-45237662015-08-07 Cave Diplopoda of southern China with reference to millipede diversity in Southeast Asia Golovatch, Sergei I. Zookeys Research Article Abstract. The diversity of Diplopoda in caves of southern China is remarkably high, often 5–6 species per cave, consisting mostly of local endemics and presumed troglobionts. These are evidently biased to just a few lineages, mainly members of the orders Chordeumatida and Callipodida, the families Cambalopsidae (Spirostreptida) and Haplodesmidae (Polydesmida) or the genera Pacidesmus, Epanerchodus and Glenniea (all Polydesmida, Polydesmidae), Trichopeltis (Polydesmida, Cryptodesmidae), Dexmoxytes (Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) and Hyleoglomeris (Glomerida, Glomeridae). All these taxa, especially the Paradoxosomatidae and Cambalopsidae (usually amounting to about 60% and 10% of the total species diversity in the Oriental fauna, respectively), are moderately to highly speciose across Southeast Asia, being largely epigean. However, the epigean Diplopoda of southern China are yet badly understudied, since much of the collecting and taxonomic exploration efforts still focus on cavernicoles. The Oriental Region is the only biogeographic realm globally that harbours all 16 orders of Diplopoda, of which 14 have already been encountered in China and/or the immediately adjacent parts of Indochina. Thus, China may actually prove to support no less than 1,000 millipede species of various origins, mainly Oriental and Palaearctic. Pensoft Publishers 2015-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4523766/ /pubmed/26257536 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.510.8640 Text en Sergei I. Golovatch http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Golovatch, Sergei I. Cave Diplopoda of southern China with reference to millipede diversity in Southeast Asia |
title | Cave Diplopoda of southern China with reference to millipede diversity in Southeast Asia |
title_full | Cave Diplopoda of southern China with reference to millipede diversity in Southeast Asia |
title_fullStr | Cave Diplopoda of southern China with reference to millipede diversity in Southeast Asia |
title_full_unstemmed | Cave Diplopoda of southern China with reference to millipede diversity in Southeast Asia |
title_short | Cave Diplopoda of southern China with reference to millipede diversity in Southeast Asia |
title_sort | cave diplopoda of southern china with reference to millipede diversity in southeast asia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4523766/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26257536 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.510.8640 |
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