Peterjohnsiidae

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

Peterjohnsiidae is a family of millipedes belonging to the order Chordeumatida.[1] Species in this family exhibit sexual dimorphism in segment number: adult males have 30 segments, but adult females have 32 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last).[2][3] In adult males in this family, the gonopod complex involves three leg pairs (pairs 8 through 10) rather than just the two (pairs 8 and 9) usually modified into gonopods in this order.[4]

Genera:[1]

  • Mauriès, 1987

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Peterjohnsiidae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Shear, W. A.; Mesibov, R. (1994). "Australian chordeumatidan millipeds. I. New observations on the genus Peterjohnsia Mauries, with the description of the a new species from Tasmania (Diplopoda : Chordeumatida : Peterjohnsiidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 8 (2): 535–544. doi:10.1071/it9940535. ISSN 1447-2600.
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