Pachymerellus Explained

Pachymerellus is a genus of two species of centipedes, in the family Geophilidae. It was described by American biologist Ralph Vary Chamberlin in 1920.^[1] The smaller Mexican species, Pachymerellus dentifer, measures only 16 mm in length and has only 43 pairs of legs,^[2] whereas the larger species, P. zygethus, measures 33 mm in length and can have from 47 to 65 leg pairs.

Species

Valid species:^[1]

• Pachymerellus dentifer (Chamberlin, 1943)
• Pachymerellus zygethus Chamberlin, 1920

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bonato L. . Chagas Junior A. . Edgecombe G.D. . Lewis J.G.E. . Minelli A. . Pereira L.A. . Shelley R.M. . Stoev P. . Zapparoli M. . 2016 . ChiloBase 2.0 . A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda) . Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese, University of Padua. 1 March 2023.
2. Chamberlin . Ralph V. . 1943 . On Mexican Centipeds . Bulletin of the University of Utah, Biological Series . 7 . 3 . 1-55 [17].