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Polydesmidae
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| Polydesmidae | |
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| Polydesmus collaris in central Italy | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Order: | Polydesmida |
| Suborder: | Polydesmidea |
| Infraorder: | Polydesmoides |
| Superfamily: | Polydesmoidea |
| Family: | Polydesmidae Leach, 1815 |
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Polydesmidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polydesmida.[1] This family includes more than 240 species in more than 30 genera. These millipedes have a mostly Holarctic distribution that extends south not only to Mexico and North Africa but also as far as Java.[2] Most species are found in the Mediterranean region.[3][4]
Description
[edit]These millipedes range from 4 mm to 30 mm in length. Colors range from pitch black through reddish or brownish to pallid and are rarely vivid. The collum is small, in the shape of a transverse oval, with a smooth anterior margin. The paranota are simple but usually well developed and dentate laterally.[2] This family includes the notable species Polydesmus progressus, which exhibits sexual dimorphism in segment number: Whereas adult females of this species feature the 20 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last) usually observed on the order Polydesmida, the adult males feature only 19 segments.[5][6]
Genera
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- Antrochodus
- Archipolydesmus
- Basicentrus
- Bhutanodesmus
- Bidentogon
- Bosniodesmus
- Bosporodesmus
- Brachydesmus
- Brembosoma
- Calianotus
- Chromobrachydesmus
- Cretodesmus
- Dixidesmus
- Epanerchodus
- Eumastigonodesmus
- Goniodesmus
- Haplobrachidesmus
- Haplocookia
- Heterocookia
- Himalodesmus
- Hispaniodesmus
- Huzichodus
- Jaxartes
- Kirgisdesmus
- Leptobrachydesmus
- Lophobrachydesmus
- Mastigonodesmus
- Mastuchus
- Merioceratium
- Niponchodus
- Nipponesmus
- Nomarchus
- Pacidesmus
- Peltogonopus
- Perapolydesmus
- Polydesmus
- Prionomatis
- Propolydesmus
- Pseudopolydesmus
- Retrorsia
- Riuerchodus
- Sardodesmus
- Schedoleiodesmus
- Schizobrachydesmus
- Schizomeritius
- Schizoturanius
- Scytonotus
- Serradium
- Spanobrachium
- Speodesmus
- Stylobrachydesmus
- Telopoditius
- Tolosanius
- Trachynotus
- Troglobrachydesmus
- Turanodesmus
- Uniramidesmus
- Usbekodesmus
- Utadesmus
References
[edit]- ^ "Polydesmidae". Catalogue of Life. 29 October 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^ a b Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (2015). "Diplopoda — Taxonomic Overview". In Minelli, Alessandro (ed.). The Myriapoda. Vol. 2. Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV. p. 402. ISBN 978-90-04-15612-8.
- ^ Nguyen, Anh D.; Vu, Tam T. T.; Eguchi, Katsuyuki (2024-01-30). "The millipede family Polydesmidae Leach, 1816 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) from Vietnam, with a description of a new cavernicolous species". ZooKeys (1190): 259–280 [259]. Bibcode:2024ZooK.1190..259N. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1190.114958. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 10848813. PMID 38327265.
- ^ Anh, Nguyen Duc (2009-06-01). "A new species of the family Polydesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) from Vietnam". International Journal of Myriapodology. 2 (1): 63–68 [63]. doi:10.1163/187525409X462421.
- ^ Brölemann, H.W. (1900). "Myriapodes cavernicoles descriptions d'espèces nouvelles". Annales de la Société entomologique de France (in French). 69 (1): 73-81 [78-80] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Enghoff, Henrik; Dohle, Wolfgang; Blower, J. Gordon (1993). "Anamorphosis in Millipedes (Diplopoda) – The Present State of Knowledge with Some Developmental and Phylogenetic Considerations". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 109 (2): 103–234 [147]. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1993.tb00305.x.
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