Decapauropus is a large genus of pauropods in the family Pauropodidae that includes more than 300 species.[1][2][3] This genus was originally described by Paul Remy in 1931 to contain the newly discovered type species Decapauropus cuenoti.[4][5][6] As the name of this genus suggests, this genus is notable for including females with ten pairs of legs instead of the nine leg pairs usually found in adult pauropods in the order Tetramerocerata.[2][3][6] Before the discovery of D. cuenoti, adult pauropods were thought to have invariably nine pairs of legs.[7]
^ abScheller, Ulf (2008). "A reclassification of the Pauropoda (Myriapoda)". International Journal of Myriapodology. 1 (1): 1–38. doi:10.1163/187525408X316730. ISSN 1875-2535.
^ abScheller, Ulf (2011). "Pauropoda". Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1: 467–508. doi:10.1163/9789004188266_022. ISBN 9789004156111.
^Remy, Paul (1931). "A propos d'un pauropode primitif". Comptes rendus, Association Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences (in French). 55: 271–272 – via Gallica.
^Remy, Paul (1931). "Un nouveau type de Pauropode: Decapauropus Cuenoti, nov. gen., nov. sp". Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale, Paris (in French). 71: 67–83 – via Gallica.
^ abScheller, Ulf; Adis, Joachim (2000). "Possible parthenogenesis in Allopauropus (Myriapoda: Pauropoda)". In Wytwer, Jolanta; Golovatch, Sergei (eds.). Progress in studies on myriapoda and onychophora: Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Myriapodology, 20-24 July 1999, Białowieża, Poland. Fragmenta faunistica. Warszawa: Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences. pp. 171–77. ISBN 978-83-85192-96-1.
^Snodgrass, R. E. (1952). Textbook of Arthropod Anatomy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. p. 251. ISBN 978-1-5017-4080-0. OCLC 1102791607.
1957, Remy demoted Decapauropus from a genus to a subgenus within the genus Allopauropus, but Ulf Scheller restored Decapauropus as a separate genus...
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