Ootacadesmus
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Ordo: Diplopoda
Familia: Trichopolydesmidae
Name
Ootacadesmus Carl, 1932 – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Diagnosis
19 segments (♂), ♀ unknown; pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga well developed, 3 rows of very short and simple metatergal setae; ♂ legs 3 clearly elongate, the femur very strongly enlarged; gonopod coxae very large (gonocoel deep); telopodites deeply sunken and only very little exposed, with a parabasal process; sph bipartite, with various apical outgrowths, including a lateral velum, sl a small subapical branchlet.
Type species
Ootacadesmus humilis Carl, 1932, by original designation.
Remarks
This monotypic genus seems to be rather poorly defined versus Sholaphilus, Pseudosphaeroparia, Coonoorophilus and Kukkalodesmus (see also above and below).
