中国少足动物分类及其分布

The Taxonomy and Distribution of the Pauropoda in China

我国对少足动物的研究起步较晚,直到近10年才渐有起色。目前,国际上对少足动物的研究仍集中于形态分类学,不过,随着物种描述和系统分类研究成果的积累,也陆续有区域性少足动物区系和分布的报道。本实验室自2006年起开展少足动物形态分类学研究,已报道少足动物1新属、19个新种和16个中国新纪录种。迄今,已记录和描述分布于我国的少足动物共计36种(包括3个未定名种),隶属于1目4科11属,即四少足目(Tetramerocerata),少足科(Pauropodidae)、广少足科(Eurypauropodidae)、短少足科(Brachypauropodidae)和球少足科(Sphaeropauropodidae),少足属(Pauropus)、别少足属(Allopauropus)、十别少足属(Decapauropus)、东泽络少足属(Donzelotauropus)、针少足属(Stylopauropus)、宋氏少足属(Songius)、广少足属(Eurypauropus)、三宝垄少足属(Samarangopus)、婆罗洲少足属(Borneopauropus)、短少足属(Brachypauropus)以及球少足属(Sphaeropauropus)。本文对我国现有少足动物的形态特征、分类和分布进行了综述,以期促进我国少足动物新种和新类群的发现,普及我国少足纲的系统分类学知识。

The research of the Pauropoda in China started lately, and has been stagnated until the recent decade. However, current studies on Pauropoda in the global scale still focused on the morphological taxonomy. With the increasing accumulation of known species and higher taxa, the fauna and geographic distribution of pauropods are addressed gradually. The studying on pauropods in our lab started in 2005, totally 1 new genus, 19 new species and 16 new record species has been reported. In this paper, we summarized the morphological taxonomy and distributions of 36 species（including 3 unidentified species） known in China, which belonging to 1 order, 4 families and 11 genera. We hope this will promote the new taxa discovery, and popularize the systematic classification of the Pauropoda in China as well.