Global InformationZygopauropus information
| Zygopauropus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Pauropoda |
| Order: | Tetramerocerata |
| Family: | Brachypauropodidae |
| Genus: | Zygopauropus MacSwain & Lanham, 1948 |
| Species: | Z. hesperius
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| Binomial name | |
| Zygopauropus hesperius MacSwain & Lanham, 1948
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Zygopauropus is a monotypic genus of pauropod in the family Brachypauropodidae.[1] The only species in this genus is Zygopauropus hesperius, first described by J.W. MacSwain and U.N. Lanham of the University of California at Berkeley in 1948.[1][2] This genus is notable as one of only four genera of pauropods in which adults have only eight pairs of legs rather than the nine leg pairs usually found in adults in the order Tetramerocerata.[3] Before the discovery of Z. hesperius, adult pauropods were thought to have only nine or (rarely) ten pairs of legs.[2]
- ^ a b "ITIS – Report: Zygopauropus". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2024-02-25.
- ^ a b MacSwain, J.W.; Lanham, U.N. (1948). "New genera and species of Pauropoda from California". Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 24 (2): 69–84 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Scheller, Ulf (2011). "Pauropoda". Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1: 467–508. doi:10.1163/9789004188266_022. ISBN 9789004156111.