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Chondromorpha Silvestri 1897

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  • 1. Department of Zoology, BMT, HGC & WBC, University School of Sciences, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad- 380009, Gujarat, India.

Description

Genus Chondromorpha Silvestri, 1897

The genus Chondromorpha Silvestri, 1897 comprises seven accepted species, with India hosting four. Specifically, C. severini Silvestri, 1897 is found in South India, C. kelaarti Humbert, 1865 in South India and West Bengal, C. kaimura Turk, 1947 in Bihar, and C. mammifera Attems, 1936 along the Orissa Coast, Bombay Presidency, Bihar, and South India. The remaining two species are C. stadelmanni Verhoeff, 1930, endemic to Sri Lanka, and C. xanthotricha Attems, 1898, pantropical, but historically uncertain for its presence in India (Attems 1936; Sankaran and Sebastian 2017), whereas C. greke has been described from Nepal (Golovatch 2023).

The Indian species of this genus are differentiated based on the number of prominences on their male sterna. One group shows a single prominence, including C. severini and C. kelaarti, while the other group presents a pair and comprises C. mammifera and C. kaimura (Sankaran & Sebastian 2017). In Gujarat, two Chondromorpha species have been found for the first time in our study. The presence of the cosmopolitan C. xanthotricha Attems, 1898 in Gujarat confirms its occurrence in India.

Notes

Published as part of Dave, Ridham & Sindhav, Gaurang, 2025, A new species of the genus Chondromorpha Silvestri, 1897 and a catalogue of Paradoxosomatidae Daday, 1889 millipedes from Gujarat, India, along with their distributions and ecological perspectives (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), pp. 329-349 in Zootaxa 5604 (3) on page 340, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/15035976

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.3.6 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Silvestri
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Polydesmida
Family
Paradoxosomatidae
Genus
Chondromorpha
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Chondromorpha Silvestri, 1897 sec. Dave & Sindhav, 2025

References

  • Silvestri, F. (1897) Description des especes nouvelles de Myriapodes du Musee royal d'Histoire naturelle de Bruxelles. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 41, 345-362.
  • Humbert, A. (1865) Essai sur les Myriapodes de Ceylan. Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Geneve, 18, 1-62.
  • Turk, F. (1947) On a collection of diplopods from North India, both cavernicolous and epigean. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 117, 65-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1947.tb00498.x
  • Attems, C. (1936) Diplopoda of India. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 11 (4), 133-323.
  • Verhoeff, K. (1930) Uber einige Chilognathen aus Ceylon, nebst vergleichend morphologischen Notizen. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 89 (7 - 10), 193-210.
  • Attems, C. (1898) System der Polydesmiden. I. Theil. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 67, 221-482.
  • Sankaran, P. & Sebastian, P. (2017) The South Asian millipede genus Chondromorpha Silvestri, 1897 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae, Sulciferini): redescriptions and synonymies. Zootaxa, 4350 (1), 61-83. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4350.1.3
  • Golovatch, S. (2023) On several new or poorly known Oriental Paradoxosomatidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida), XXXI. Arthropoda selecta, 32 (1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.32.1.01