Brachydesmus
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Class: | Diplopoda
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| Genus: | Brachydesmus Heller, 1858
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Brachydesmus is a genus of millipedes belonging to the family Polydesmidae. Species in this genus have 19 segments as adults (counting the collum, the telson, and the rings in between).[1][2] Adult females have 29 pairs of legs, and adult males have 28 pairs of walking legs, excluding one pair of gonopods.[1][3]
Species[]
Species within this genus include: [4]
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- ^ a b Blower, J. Gordon (1985). Millipedes : keys and notes for the identification of the species. Linnean Society of London, Estuarine and Brackish-water Sciences Association. London: Published for the Linnean Society of London and the Estuarine and Brackish-Water Sciences Association by E.J. Brill. ISBN 90-04-07698-0. OCLC 13439686.
- ^ 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: 103–234.
- ^ Mesibov, Robert. "External Anatomy of Polydesmida: Body plans". myriapodology.org. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ^ Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D. Catalogue of Life
Categories:
- Polydesmida
- Millipede genera