Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Home Research Hub dataZone Galapagos Species Database

Nannopodellus purpurescens Chamberlin 1924

ciempiés, Centipede

Eyeless species in widespread eyeless taxa. Found littoral, soil

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Chilopoda

Order
Geophilomorpha

Family
Schendylidae

Genus
Nannopodellus

Species
purpurescens

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Endemic

Distribution

Distribution: : Baltra, Volcán Sierra Negra, Santa Cruz

References

  • Baert, L. Herrera, H.W. (2013) The Myriapoda of the Galápagos Archipelago, Ecuador (Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Symphyla) Belgian Journal of Entomology 14 :1-49
  • Peck, S.B. Shear, W.A. (2000) New Records of Myriapoda (Centipedes and Millipedes) from the Galapagos Islands. Noticias de Galapagos 61: 14-16.
  • Peck, S.B. (1990) Eyeless arthropods of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador: Composition and origin of the cryptozoic fauna of a young, tropical, oceanic archipelago. Biotropica 22(4): 366-381.

You are welcome to download and use the information found in this page, acknowledging its source.

This page should be cited as follows:

"Galapagos Species Database, Nannopodellus purpurescens", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=13974. Accessed 31 October 2026.