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Sphaerotheriidae

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Family of millipedes

Sphaerotheriidae
Sphaerotherium species
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Sphaerotheriida
Family: Sphaerotheriidae
Brandt, 1833 
Subfamilies

Sphaerotheriidae is a family of giant pill millipedes of the class Diplopoda. Millipedes of this family are distributed in southern Africa.

Selected genera

Sphaerotherium Brandt, 1833, 54 species, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Kylindotherium Attems, 1926, monotypic, South Africa

References

  1. "Family Sphaerotheriidae Brandt, 1833". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Retrieved April 8, 2010.
  2. Wesener, T. & van den Spiegel, D. (2009). "A first phylogenetic analysis of Giant Pill-Millipedes (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida), a new model Gondwanan taxon, with special emphasis on island gigantism". Cladistics. 25: 545–573. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00267.x. Archived from the original on 2013-01-05.
  3. Thomas Wesener (December 7, 2006). Giant-pill millipede phylogeny and plate tectonics (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida) (PDF). 8th Young Systematists' Forum. Natural History Museum, London: The Systematics Association.
Taxon identifiers
Sphaerotheriidae


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