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{{Short description|Genus of millipedes}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Tubaphe levii.jpg
| image2 = Brimleyana (1994) (20406824082).jpg
| image2_caption = Drawings of ''Tubaphe levii'' including the gonopods by Rowland Shelley
| genus = Tubaphe
| parent_authority = Causey, 1954
| species = levii
| authority = Causey, 1954
| synonyms = <small>'''Species synonymy'''</small>
{{Species list | Metaxycheir pacifica | Shelley, 1990}}
| synonyms_ref = <ref>{{Catalogue of Life|id=59HS6|title=''Tubaphe''|access-date=8 September 2024}}</ref>
}}
'''''Tubaphe''''' is a [[genus]] of [[millipede]] in the family [[Xystodesmidae]] with a [[Monotypic taxon|single described species]], '''''Tubaphe levii'''''.<ref name="inaturalist-Tubaphe">{{inaturalist taxon|460131|''Tubaphe''}}</ref> The genus was erected by Nell B. Causey in 1954.<ref name="Causey1954">{{Cite book |last=Pacific Coast Entomological Society |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56384372 |title=The Pan-Pacific entomologist |last2=Society |first2=Pacific Coast Entomological |last3=Van Duzee |first3=Edward P. |last4=Sciences |first4=California Academy of |last5=Society |first5=Pacific Coast Entomological |date=1954 |publisher=Pacific Coast Entomological Society |volume=30 |issue=1{{ndash}}4 (1954) |location=San Francisco}}</ref>
''Tubaphe'' was described as having a simple gonopod with a two-pronged telopodite and lacking lacking paranota on segments six, eight, eleven, and fourteen.''<ref name="Causey1954" />'' Shelley notes that ''T. levii'' has a nearly cylindrical body and is often lacking or nearly lacking paranota beyond the first four segments''<ref name=":0" />''
''Tubaphe levii'' was first described by N. B. Causey based on samples collected by Dr [[Herbert Walter Levi|Herbert W Levi]] and Lorna R. Levi from the Graves Creek Campground on the [[Olympic peninsula]].<ref name="Causey1954" /> The species was placed in a unique genus based in large part on the reduced paranota of all segments after the fourth.<ref name="Causey1954" /> This feature distinguishes ''T. levii'' from all other American Xystodesmids.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Shelley |first=Rowland M. |date=1994 |title=The Chonaphini, a biogeographically significant milliped tribe in eastern and western North America (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae) |url=https://biostor.org/reference/217819 |journal=Brimleyana |volume=20 |pages=111–200}}</ref>
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.<ref name=":0" /> The Vancouver island population was first described as ''Metaxycheir pacifica'' by Rowland M. Shelley in 1990<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shelley |first=Rowland M. |date=1990-11-01 |title=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 |url=http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/10.1139/z90-323 |journal=Canadian Journal of Zoology |language=en |volume=68 |issue=11 |pages=2310–2322 |doi=10.1139/z90-323 |issn=0008-4301}}</ref> and later synonymized with ''T. levii'' by Dr Shelley in 1993.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shelley |first=Rowland M. |date=1993-01-01 |title=The milliped genus Underwoodia (Chordeumatida: Caseyidae) |url=http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/10.1139/z93-023 |journal=Canadian Journal of Zoology |language=en |volume=71 |issue=1 |pages=168–176 |doi=10.1139/z93-023 |issn=0008-4301}}</ref>
== References ==
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