| Opisthocheiridae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Order: | Chordeumatida |
| Superfamily: | Cleidogonoidea |
| Family: | Opisthocheiridae |
Opisthocheiridae is a family of millipedes belonging to the order Chordeumatida. This family includes 40 species distributed among seven genera. These millipedes are found in western Europe and Morocco.
Description
Millipedes in this family range from 5 mm to 16 mm in length. The paranota are small humps and hardly developed sometimes. The posterior gonopods have from one to three segments. Adult millipedes in this family have 26 or 30 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last). This family includes the cave-dwelling species Opisthocheiron canayerensis, notable as one of only a few chordeumatidan species with only 26 segments in adults, four fewer segments than typically found in adults in this order.
Genera
This family includes seven genera:
- Brachytropisoma Silvestri, 1898
- Ceratosphys Ribaut, 1920
- Hispaniosoma Ribaut, 1913
- Marquetia Ribaut, 1905
- Marquetiella Jeekel, 1969
- Opisthocheiron Ribaut, 1913
- Sireuma Reboleira & Enghoff, 2014
References
- ^ "Opisthocheiridae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
- ^ "Opisthocheiridae Ribaut, 1913 | COL". www.catalogueoflife.org. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
- ^ Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (2015-01-01). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview". Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453 . doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017. ISBN 978-90-04-15612-8.
- ^ 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. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1993.tb00305.x.
- Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques (1984). "Particularités du Développement Post-embryonaire du Diplopode Craspedosomide Cavernicole Opisthocheiron canayerensis". Mémoires de Biospéologie (in French). 11: 211–220.
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| Opisthocheiridae | |