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Diet of Critically Endangered Black‐Eyed Bent‐Toed Gecko, Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis, Nguyen, Orlov & Darevsky, 2006 From Vietnam [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
The Black‐eyed Bent‐toed Gecko, Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis, a species endemic to Ba Den Mountain Cultural and Historical Complex, Tay Ninh Province, Vietnam, has been classified as Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List since 2018.
Hanh Thi Ngo, Minh Duc Le, Trang Thu Hoang, Ha Hoang Nguyen, Huy Quoc Nguyen, Quyen Hanh Do, Hanh Minh Vu Nguyen, Truong Quang Nguyen, Thomas Ziegler, Minh Le, Anh Van Pham   +10 more
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Type designation and redescription of Scolopendra spinosissima Kraepelin, 1903 (Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae), with remarks on related taxa [PDF]

ZooKeys
The recent description of the scolopendromorph centipede Scolopendra paradoxa Doménech, 2018 raised questions concerning the morphological limits of its closest relative S. spinosissima Kraepelin, 1903.
Carles Doménech
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Rediscovery and phylogenetic relationships of the scolopendromorph centipede Mimops orientalis Kraepelin, 1903 (Chilopoda) a monotypic species of Mimopidae endemic to China, for more than one century [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2020
Mimops orientalis Kraepelin, 1903 is a monotypic species of Mimopidae endemic to China. The species is known only from a single specimen, the holotype. Little is known about its biology, habitat associations, or phylogenetic relationships.
Chao Jiang, Yunjun Bai, Mengxuan Shi, Juan Liu   +3 more
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A new species of Otostigmus (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae) from China, with remarks on the phylogenetic relationships of Otostigmus politus Karsch, 1881 [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2023
Through a combination of morphological and DNA data, a new scolopendrid centipede from southern and southwestern China was revealed: O. tricarinatus sp. nov. The species belong to the politus group but has three sharp tergal keels.
Tian-Yun Chen, Chao Jiang, Lu-Qi Huang
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The revalidation of Otostigmus (O.) lewisi Song et al., 2005 (Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae) based on new material from Jiacha County, China [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2022
Otostigmus (O.) lewisi Song et al., 2005 was described from sub-adult specimens from Jiacha County (Xizang, China), but was synonymized by Lewis (2010) with the Nepalese species O. (O.) beroni Lewis, 2001. The latter was also recorded from Jilong County (
Xiaoshuang Liu, Yixuan Li, Zhiyong Di
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Evolutionary biogeography of the centipede genus Ethmostigmus from Peninsular India: testing an ancient vicariance hypothesis for Old World tropical diversity [PDF]

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019
Background Understanding the relative influence of vicariance and dispersal in shaping Old World tropical biodiversity remains a challenge. We aimed to infer the roles of these alternative biogeographic processes using a species time-tree for the ...
Jahnavi Joshi, Gregory D. Edgecombe
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The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Scolopendra mutilans L. Koch, 1878 (Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae), with a comparative analysis of other centipede genomes [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2020
Scolopendra mutilans L. Koch, 1878 is an important Chinese animal with thousands of years of medicinal history. However, the genomic information of this species is limited, which hinders its further application.
Chaoyi Hu, Shuaibin Wang, Bisheng Huang, Hegang Liu, Lei Xu, Zhigang Hu, Yifei Liu   +6 more
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ZhiJingSan Inhibits Osteoclastogenesis via Regulating RANKL/NF-κB Signaling Pathway and Ameliorates Bone Erosion in Collagen-Induced Mouse Arthritis [PDF]

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021
Bone erosion is the most evident pathological condition of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which is the main cause of joint deformities and disability in RA patients.
Yuanyuan Ling, Jie Yang, Di Hua, Dawei Wang, Chenglei Zhao, Ling Weng, Dandan Yue, Xueting Cai, Qinghai Meng, Jiao Chen, Xiaoyan Sun, Weikang Kong, Lizhong Zhu, Peng Cao, Peng Cao, Chunping Hu   +15 more
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On the taxonomic position of the enigmatic genus Tonkinodentus Schileyko, 1992 (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha): the first molecular data [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2019
The taxonomic position of the monotypic Vietnamese genus Tonkinodentus Schileyko, 1992 (for T. lestes Schileyko, 1992) has been considered in the light of the first obtained molecular data.
Arkady A. Schileyko, Evgeniya N. Solovyeva   +1 more
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Taxonomic and nomenclatural reassessment of the Iberian Peninsula’s nomina obscura, Scolopendra viridipes Dufour, 1820 and S. chlorotes L. Koch in Rosenhauer, 1856 (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae) [PDF]

ZooKeys
The taxonomic identities of the two largely neglected Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758 species from continental Spain, S. viridipes Dufour, 1820 and S. chlorotes L. Koch in Rosenhauer, 1856, are examined in this paper.
Carles Doménech
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