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Tubaphe
Drawings of Tubaphe levii including the gonopods by Rowland Shelley
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Polydesmida
Family:	Xystodesmidae
Genus:	Tubaphe Causey, 1954
Species:	T. levii
Binomial name
Tubaphe levii Causey, 1954
Synonyms
Species synonymy Metaxycheir pacifica Shelley, 1990

Tubaphe is a genus of millipede in the family Xystodesmidae with a single described species, Tubaphe levii. The genus was erected by Nell B. Causey in 1954.

Tubaphe was described as having a simple gonopod with a two-pronged telopodite and lacking lacking paranota on segments six, eight, eleven, and fourteen. Shelley notes that T. levii has a nearly cylindrical body and is often lacking or nearly lacking paranota beyond the first four segments

Tubaphe levii was first described by N. B. Causey based on samples collected by Dr Herbert W Levi and Lorna R. Levi from the Graves Creek Campground on the Olympic peninsula. The species was placed in a unique genus based in large part on the reduced paranota of all segments after the fourth. This feature distinguishes T. levii from all other American Xystodesmids.

The species is found on the northern parts of the Olympic peninsula (where it was first described from) as well as on the southern portions of Vancouver Island BC. The Vancouver island population was first described as Metaxycheir pacifica by Rowland M. Shelley in 1990 and later synonymized with T. levii by Dr Shelley in 1993.

References

1. "Tubaphe". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
2. Citizen science observations for Tubaphe at iNaturalist
3. ^ Pacific Coast Entomological Society; Society, Pacific Coast Entomological; Van Duzee, Edward P.; Sciences, California Academy of; Society, Pacific Coast Entomological (1954). The Pan-Pacific entomologist. Vol. 30. San Francisco: Pacific Coast Entomological Society.
4. ^ Shelley, Rowland M. (1994). "The Chonaphini, a biogeographically significant milliped tribe in eastern and western North America (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)". Brimleyana. 20: 111–200.
5. Shelley, Rowland M. (1990-11-01). "A new milliped of the genus Metaxycheir from the Pacific coast of Canada (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae), with remarks on the tribe Chonaphini and the western Canadian and Alaskan diplopod fauna". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 68 (11): 2310–2322. doi:10.1139/z90-323. ISSN 0008-4301.
6. Shelley, Rowland M. (1993-01-01). "The milliped genus Underwoodia (Chordeumatida: Caseyidae)". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 71 (1): 168–176. doi:10.1139/z93-023. ISSN 0008-4301.

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