Cryptops

Cryptops
Cryptops hortensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Scolopendromorpha
Family: Cryptopidae
Genus: Cryptops
Leach, 1814[1]
Synonyms
  • Chromatanops Verhoeff, 1906
  • Crytops Brullé, 1832
  • Cryptops Leach, 1815
  • Haplocryptops Verhoeff, 1934
  • Mycotheres Rafinesque, 1820
  • Paratrigonocryptops Demange, 1963
  • Trichocryptops Verhoeff, 1937
  • Trigonocryptops Verhoeff, 1906

Cryptops sometimes known as cave centipedes[2], is a centipede genus in the family Cryptopidae; species records have a world-wide distribution.[3]

  1. ^ Leach WE (1814) Crustaceology: in Brewster D (ed.) The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh. 7(2): 385–437, 765–766.
  2. ^ "Cave Centipedes (Genus Cryptops)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  3. ^ "Cryptops - Leach, 1814". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 6 January 2023.