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Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist


Garden centipedes

Garden centipedes, or glasshouse symphylans, are soil-dwelling arthropods that resemble centipedes, but are smaller and translucent. They are ecologically important soil invertebrates that are small enough to move rapidly between soil particles and are typically found to a depth of about 50 cm. They consume decaying vegetation, but some species are also considered pests because they consume seed, roots, and root hairs in cultivated soil.

Author: Henri W. Herrera.

Other Contributors: Sandra Abedrabbo, Léon L. Baert, Fabián Bersosa, Ruth Boada, Charlotte Causton, Germania Estévez, Lilian Guzmán, María T. Lasso, Maria Piedad Lincango, Yale Lubin, Alejandro Mieles, Renato Oquendo, Lázaro Roque-Álbelo.

Names of taxa included: 1.

Symphyla Species Checklist

Domain Eukaryota

Kingdom Animalia

Division Arthropoda

Class Symphyla

Order Cephalostigmata

Superfamily Scutigerelloidea

Family Scutigerellidae

Genus Hanseniella

Hanseniella caldaria  Hansen, 1903

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This list should be cited as follows:

Herrera, H. W. (2011). CDF Checklist of Galapagos Garden centipedes - FCD Lista de especies de Sinfilas de Galápagos. In: Bungartz, F., Herrera, H., Jaramillo, P., Tirado, N., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Ruiz, D., Guézou, A. & Ziemmeck, F. (eds.). Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist - Lista de Especies de Galápagos de la Fundación Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin Foundation / Fundación Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos: http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/terrestrial-invertebrates/symphyla/ Last updated 13 Apr 2011.