Kashmireumatidae

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Kashmireumatidae
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Chordeumatida
Family: Kashmireumatidae

Kashmireumatidae is a family of millipedes belonging to the order Chordeumatida.[1] Adult millipedes in this family have only 26 or 28 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last) rather than the 30 segments usually found in this order.[2] In the species Vieteuma topali, adults have 26 segments, whereas in all other species in this family, adults have 28 segments.[3][4] In some species (the genus Kashmireuma and the species V. longi), the second leg pair in the adult female is vestigial, but all other species in this family (the genus Lipseuma and the species V. topali and V. hubeiensis), the adult female has a normal legs.[3][4]

Genera:[1]

  • Mauriès, 1982
  • Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauries, 2006
  • Golovatch, 1984

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Kashmireumatidae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b Shear, William A. (2002). "Five New Chordeumatidan Millipeds from China: New Species of Vieteuma (Kashmirieumatidae) and Nepalella (Megalotylidae)". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 53(6): 63–72 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. ^ a b Golovatch, Sergei I.; Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques; Mauries, Jean-Paul (2006). "Four new Chordeumatida (Diplopoda) from caves in China". Zoosystema. 28 (1): 75–92.
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