Polyxenidae
Family of millipedes
Polyxenidae Temporal range: Barremian–Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Polyxenus lagurus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
Class: | Diplopoda |
Order: | Polyxenida |
Family: | Polyxenidae Lucas, 1840 |
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Polyxenidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polyxenida containing approximately 47 species in 19 genera.[1][2] All adults in this family have 13 pairs of legs.[3]
Genera
- Allographis Silvestri 1948
- Anopsxenus Condé & Jacquemin 1963
- Chilexenus Silvestri 1948
- Eudigraphis Silvestri 1948
- Macroxenodes Silvestri 1948
- Macroxenus Brölemann 1917
- Mauritixenus Verhoeff 1939
- Mesoxenontus Silvestri 1948
- Miopsxenus Condé 1951
- Monographis Attems 1907
- Monoxenus Jones 1937
- Pauropsxenus Silvestri 1948 (Fossil species known from Burmese amber, Cenomanian)
- Pollyxenus Latreille 1802/1803
- Polyxenus Latzel 1884
- Propolyxenus Silvestri 1948
- Saroxenus Cook 1896
- Silvestrus Jones 1937
- Typhloxenus Condé 1955
- Unixenus Jones 1944
- †Electroxenus Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin and Azar 2004 Lebanese amber, Barremian
- †Libanoxenus Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin and Azar 2004 Lebanese amber, Barremian
References
- ^ Spelda, J. "SysMyr: Systematic Myriapod Database (version Apr 2013)". Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 17th October 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
- ^ Shear, W. (2011). "Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844" (PDF). In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.). Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Vol. 3148. pp. 159–164. ISBN 978-1-86977-850-7.
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ignored (help) - ^ Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (1 January 2015). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview". Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017. ISBN 9789004188273.
External links
Data related to Polyxenidae at Wikispecies
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