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(Redirected from Rhiscosomididae) Genus of millipedes

Rhiscosomides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Chordeumatida
Family: Rhiscosomididae
Genus: Rhiscosomides
Silvestri, 1909

Rhiscosomides is a genus of small millipedes in the order Chordeumatida. The genus contains seven described species, and is the only genus in the family Rhiscosomididae.

Rhiscosomides millipedes are native to western North America. Adult millipedes in this family are small, and have 30 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last).

Species

References

  1. "Rhiscosomididae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  2. "Browse Rhiscosomididae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  3. Shelley, R.M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  4. "Rhiscosomides". GBIF. Retrieved 2024-12-12.
  5. 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.
  6. 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_01. ISBN 978-90-04-15612-8.

Further reading

  • Lee, Paul; Harding, P. (2006). Atlas of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Britain and Ireland. Vol. 59. Pensoft.
  • Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History.
  • Foddai, Donatella; Dallai, Romano (1995). Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, Symphyla. Calderini.
  • Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
Taxon identifiers
Rhiscosomides
Rhiscosomididae


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