{{Short description|Genus of millipedes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Lophoturus boondallus Huynh & Veenstra, 2018.jpg | image_caption = ''Lophoturus boondallus'' | taxon = Lophoturus | authority = Brölemann, 1931 | type_species = ''Lophoturus obscurus'' | type_species_authority = Brölemann, 1931 | diversity = Approx. 27 species }}
'''''Lophoturus''''' is a genus of millipedes belonging to the family Lophoproctidae.<ref name=MilliBase>{{cite web |url=http://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=891944 |title=''Lophoturus'' Brölemann, 1931 |publisher=MilliBase taxon details|accessdate=3 April 2018}}</ref> Species described after year 2000 include two from Queensland, Australia,<ref name="Huynh and Veenstra 2018">{{cite journal |url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/21814/element/7/polyxenida/ |title=Two new ''Lophoturus'' species (Diplopoda, Polyxenida, Lophoproctidae) from Queensland, Australia |journal=ZooKeys |pages=133–154 |accessdate=3 April 2018|doi=10.3897/zookeys.741.21814 |pmid=29706774 |year=2018 |last1=Huynh |first1=Cuong |last2=Veenstra |first2=Anneke A. |issue=741 |pmc=5904426 |doi-access=free }}</ref> three from Christmas Island, Australia,<ref name="Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin 2014">{{cite journal |title=Two new species of ''Lophoturus'' (Diplopoda, Penicillata, Lophoproctidae) from caves in Christmas Island, Australia, including the second troglomorph in Penicillata |journal=Zoosystema |volume=36 |pages=29–39 |doi=10.5252/z2014n1a2 |year=2014 |last1=Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin |first1=Monique |s2cid=84884342 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/4539480 }}</ref> and three from the Caribbean and northern South America.<ref name="Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin 2002">{{cite journal |last1=Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin |first1=Monique |year=2002 |url=http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/z2002n2a11.pdf |title=New species and distribution of the genera ''Lophoturus'' and ''Ancistroxenus'' (Myriapoda, Diplopoda, Penicillata) in the Caribbean and northern South America |journal=Zoosystema |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=451–470 }}</ref>
==Species== There are approximately 27 species:<ref name=MilliBase/><ref name="Huynh and Veenstra 2018"/><ref name="Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin 2014"/> *''Lophoturus adisi'' <small>Ishii, Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy & Condé, 1999</small> *''Lophoturus aequatus'' <small>(Loomis, 1936)</small> *''Lophoturus anisorhabdus'' <small>(Condé & Terver, 1964)</small> *''Lophoturus boondallus'' <small>Huynh & Veenstra, 2018</small> *''Lophoturus crassipes'' <small>Conde & Terver, 1979</small> *''Lophoturus danhomenou'' <small>(Brölemann, 1926)</small> *''Lophoturus difficilis'' <small>(Condé & Jacquemin, 1963)</small> *''Lophoturus drifti'' <small>(Condé & Terver, 1964)</small> *''Lophoturus fluctuans'' <small>(Condé & Terver, 1964)</small> *''Lophoturus guineensis'' <small>(Silvestri, 1948)</small> *''Lophoturus hesperius'' <small>(Condè & Terver, 1963)</small> *''Lophoturus humphreysi'' <small>Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin 2014</small> *''Lophoturus jianshuiensis'' <small>Ishii & Yin, 2000</small> *''Lophoturus judsoni'' <small>Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy, 2002</small> *''Lophoturus longisetis'' <small>(Pocock, 1894)</small> *''Lophoturus madecassus'' <small>(Marquet & Condé, 1950)</small> *''Lophoturus molloyensis'' <small>Huynh & Veenstra, 2018</small> *''Lophoturus monserratensis'' <small>Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy, 2002</small> *''Lophoturus niveus'' <small>(Loomis, 1934)</small> *''Lophoturus obscurus'' <small>(Brölemann, 1931)</small> *''Lophoturus okinawai'' <small>(Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin & Condé, 1982)</small> *''Lophoturus peruanus'' <small>(Silvestri, 1949)</small> *''Lophoturus quebradanus'' <small>(Chamberlin, 1955)</small> *''Lophoturus queenslandicus'' <small>(Verhoeff, 1924)</small> *''Lophoturus speophilus'' <small>Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin 2014</small> *''Lophoturus sturmi'' <small>Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy, 2002</small> *''Lophoturus vicarius'' <small>Conde & Terver, 1979</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30099213 Reproduction, egg morphology and development observed in two Australian penicillate millipedes, ''Lophoturus queenslandicus'' (Lophoproctidae) and ''Phryssonotus novaehollandiae'' (Synxenidae) (Diplopoda)]
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Category:Polyxenida Category:Millipede genera