Sigmoria

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Sigmoria
Sigmoria Greenville County SC.jpg
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Polydesmida
Family: Xystodesmidae
Genus: Sigmoria
Chamberlin, 1939

Sigmoria is a genus of flat-backed millipedes in the family Xystodesmidae. There are more than 40 described species in Sigmoria.[1][2][3][4]

Sigmoria trimaculata Pennsylvania.jpg

Species[]

These 45 species belong to the genus Sigmoria:

  • Chamberlin (almond millipede)
  • (Hoffman, 1956)
  • (Chamberlin, 1921)
  • Shelley, 1981
  • Chamberlin
  • Sigmoria australis Shelley, 1986
  • Shelley, 1981
  • (Causey, 1942)
  • Chamberlin, 1940
  • Hoffman, 1956
  • Chamberlin, 1939
  • Hoffman, 1956
  • Shelley, 1981
  • Hoffman, 1949
  • Shelley, 1981
  • (Hoffman, 1949)
  • Shelley, 1981
  • Sigmoria latior (Brölemann, 1900)
  • (Chamberlin, 1939)
  • Chamberlin, 1939
  • (Chamberlin, 1918)
  • Chamberlin, 1939
  • Sigmoria nantahalae Hoffman, 1958
  • Hoffman, 1950
  • Sigmoria nigrimontis (Chamberlin, 1947)
  • Hoffman
  • Shelley, 1986
  • (Loomis, 1944)
  • Shelley, 1981
  • Shelley, 1986
  • Sigmoria rubromarginata (Bollman, 1888)
  • Shelley, 1981
  • Shelley, 1981
  • Chamberlin, 1942
  • Shelley, 1981
  • Shelley, 1981
  • Shelley, 1981
  • (Wood, 1864)
  • Shelley, 1981
  • Shelley, 1981
  • Shelley, 1986
  • Shelley, 1986
  • (Hoffman, 1956)
  • Chamberlin, 1949

References[]

  1. ^ "Sigmoria Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. ^ "Sigmoria". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. ^ Shelley, R. M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

Further reading[]

  • Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. Vol. 8. ISBN 9781884549120.
  • Golovatch, Sergei I.; Kime, R. Desmond (2009). "Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review" (PDF). Soil Organisms. 81: 565–597.

External links[]

  • Media related to Sigmoria at Wikimedia Commons


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