Spirostreptidae

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Spirostreptidae
Spirostreptus seychellarum Großer Tausendfüßler.jpg
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Spirostreptidae

Brandt, 1833
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Spirostreptidae is a family of millipedes in the order Spirostreptida. It contains around 100 genera distributed in North and South America, the eastern Mediterranean, continental Africa, Madagascar, and Seychelles.[1]: 116–29  It contains the following genera:[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Hoffman, R. L. (1999). "Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America". Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. 8: 1–553.
  2. ^ "Spirostreptidae" at the Encyclopedia of Life
  3. ^ Richard L. Hoffmann (2011). "Rondostreptus, a new spirostreptid genus from southeastern Tanzania (Diplopoda: Spirostreptidae)" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa. 2779: 63–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2779.1.3.


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