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Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated close to the southern tip of India. The invertebrate fauna is as large as it is common to other regions of the world. There are about 2 million species of arthropods found in the world, and still it is counting. So many new species are discover up to this time also. So it is very complicated and difficult to summarize the exact number of species found within a certain region.

The following list is about Centipedes and Millipedes found in Sri Lanka.

Centipede

Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda

Centipedes are arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda of the subphylum Myriapoda. They are elongated metameric creatures with one pair of legs per body segment, where legs ranging from 30 to 354. They always have an odd number of pairs of legs.^[1]^[2]^[3] A pair of venom claws or forcipules formed from a modified first appendage, which indicated that they are predominantly carnivorous.^[4]^: 168

About 8,000 species of centipedes are thought to exist,^[5] of which 3,000 have been described.

The following list provide the centipedes currently identified in Sri Lanka. The first known study on centipedes are came from Newport on 1845. Then many more overseas biologists and naturalists did many studies on centipedes. However, much recent work and the first work by a local biologist was done by Duminda Dissanayake of Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. According to his checklist, there are 19 species from 4 orders and 6 families are known from Sri Lanka.

Endemic species are denoted as E.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Family: Oryidae

Orphnaeus brevilabiatus

Order: Lithobimorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Order: Scolopendrimorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Family: Scutigeridae

Thereuopodina tenuicornis

Order: Scutigeromorpha

Family: Scutigerinidae

Scutigerina weberi

References

^ Lloyd, John (2006). The Book of General Ignorance. London: Bloomsbury House. p. 119. ISBN 0571273785. Retrieved June 10, 2014.
^ Arthur, W. (2002). "The interaction between developmental bias and natural selection from centipede segmentation to a general hypothesis". Heredity. 89 (4): 239–246. doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800139. PMID 12242638.
^ Arthur, Wallace; Chapman, Ariel D. (2005). "The centipede Strigamia maritima: what it can tell us about development and evolution of segmentation". BioEssays. 27 (6): 653–660. doi:10.1002/bies.20234. PMID 15892117.
^ Lewis, J. G. E. (2007). The Biology of Centipedes. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-03411-1.
^ Adis, Joachim; Harvey, Mark S. (2000). "How many Arachnida and Myriapoda are there worldwide and in Amazonia?". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. 35 (2): 139–141. doi:10.1076/0165-0521(200008)35:2;1-9;FT139.

[1] Lloyd, John (2006). The Book of General Ignorance. London: Bloomsbury House. p. 119. ISBN 0571273785. Retrieved June 10, 2014.

[2] Arthur, W. (2002). "The interaction between developmental bias and natural selection from centipede segmentation to a general hypothesis". Heredity. 89 (4): 239–246. doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800139. PMID 12242638.

[3] Arthur, Wallace; Chapman, Ariel D. (2005). "The centipede Strigamia maritima: what it can tell us about development and evolution of segmentation". BioEssays. 27 (6): 653–660. doi:10.1002/bies.20234. PMID 15892117.

[Biology-4] Lewis, J. G. E. (2007). The Biology of Centipedes. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-03411-1.

[5] Adis, Joachim; Harvey, Mark S. (2000). "How many Arachnida and Myriapoda are there worldwide and in Amazonia?". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. 35 (2): 139–141. doi:10.1076/0165-0521(200008)35:2;1-9;FT139.

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