Ctenophilus Cook, 1896
Ctenophilus Cook, 1896
Original description: Cook O.F. (1896). Geophiloidea from Liberia and Togo - Brandtia, 35-40, see p. 36.
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Schendylidae
Original rank: genus
Type species: Ctenophilus africanus Cook,1896 - by subsequent designation
Fixed by: Pereira L.A., Demange, J.-M. (1997). Nouvelle contribution à la connaissance du genre Ctenophilus Cook, 1896, à répartition géographique disjointe (Myriapoda, Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Schendylidae) - Zoosystema , 19: 293-326, see p. 305.
Synonym(s):
Last taxonomic scrutiny: Pereira L.A., Demange, J.-M. (1997). Nouvelle contribution à la connaissance du genre Ctenophilus Cook, 1896, à répartition géographique disjointe (Myriapoda, Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Schendylidae) - Zoosystema, 19: 293-326, see p. 294.
Valid Species:
- Ctenophilus africanus Cook, 1896
- Ctenophilus amieti (Demange, 1963)
- Ctenophilus angolae (Chamberlin, 1951)
- Ctenophilus chevalieri (Brölemann & Ribaut, 1911)
- Ctenophilus corticeus (Demange, 1968)
- Ctenophilus edentulus (Porat, 1894)
- Ctenophilus nesiotes (Chamberlin, 1918)
- Ctenophilus nitidus (Brölemann, 1926)
- Ctenophilus oligopodus (Demange, 1963)
- Ctenophilus paurodus Cook, 1896
- Ctenophilus pratensis (Demange, 1963)
- Ctenophilus simplex Cook, 1896
Notes: Invalidly proposed in an earlier paper by Cook (1986) - Proceedings of the United States national Museum 18: 71.
