Metopidiotrichidae
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Order: | Chordeumatida |
| Suborder: | Heterochordeumatidea |
| Superfamily: | |
| Family: | Metopidiotrichidae |
Metopidiotrichidae is a family of millipedes in the order Chordeumatida. Adult millipedes in this family have 32 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last), not the 30 segments usually found in this order.[1][2] Adult males in this family (e.g., Reginaterreuma monroei, R. daviesae, R. unicolor, R. major, and Neocambrisoma raveni) often feature a reduced or vestigial leg pair 10 as part of the gonopod complex, in addition to the two leg pairs (pairs 8 and 9) typically modified into gonopods in this order.[3][4] There are about 9 genera and at least 70 described species in Metopidiotrichidae.[5][6][7]
Genera[]
These nine genera belong to the family Metopidiotrichidae:
- Australeuma Golovatch, 1986
- Verhoeff, 1929
- Attems, 1907
- Mauriès, 1987
- Shear & Mesibov, 1997
- Shear & Tanabe, 1994
- Pocockia Silvestri, 1895
- Mauriès, 1987
- Silvestri, 1903
References[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mauries, Jean-Paul (1987). "Craspedosomid Millipedes Discovered in Australia: Reginaterreuma, Neocambrisoma and Peterjohnsia, New Genera (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Craspedosomida)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 25(1): 107–133 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Shear, William A. (2002). "The millipede genus Metopidiothrix Attems (Diplopoda : Chordeumatida : Metopidiotrichidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 16 (6): 849–892. doi:10.1071/IS02005. ISSN 1445-5226 – via ResearchGate.
- ^ "Metopidiotrichidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
- ^ Shelley, R. M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ^ Sierwald, P.; Spelda, J. "Millibase". doi:10.14284/370. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
Further reading[]
- Brewer, M. S.; Sierwald, P.; Bond, J. E. (2012). "Millipede Taxonomy after 250 Years: Classification and Taxonomic Practices in a Mega-Diverse yet Understudied Arthropod Group". PLOS ONE. 7 (5): e37240. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...737240B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037240. PMC 3352885. PMID 22615951.
- Golovatch, Sergei I.; Kime, R. Desmond (2009). "Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review" (PDF). Soil Organisms. 81: 565–597.
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