Biology:Metopidiotrichidae
Metopidiotrichidae is a family of millipedes in the order Chordeumatida.[1] This family includes more than 70 species.[2] These millipedes are found in Indochina, Australia, and on Pacific islands from New Zealand to Japan.[3]
Description
Millipedes in this family range from 4 mm to 17 mm in length. The paranota take the form of small bulges or distinct keels.[3] 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.[4][3] Either the anterior or the posterior gonopods can feature flagella, but never both pairs. Adult males in this family often feature modifications to the head, antennae, and legs adjacent to the gonopods.[3] In particular, adult males often feature a reduced or vestigial leg pair 10 as part of the gonopod complex (e.g., Reginaterreuma monroei, R. daviesae, R. unicolor, R. major, and Neocambrisoma raveni), in addition to the two leg pairs (pairs 8 and 9) typically modified into gonopods in this order.[5][6]
Genera
The family Metopidiotrichidae includes the following nine genera:[1]
- Australeuma Golovatch, 1986
- Malayothrix Verhoeff, 1929
- Metopidiothrix Attems, 1907
- Neocambrisoma Mauriès, 1987
- Nesiothrix Shear & Mesibov, 1997
- Nipponothrix Shear & Tanabe, 1994
- Pocockia Silvestri, 1895
- Reginaterreuma Mauriès, 1987
- Schedotrigona Silvestri, 1903
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "MilliBase - Metopidiotrichidae Attems, 1907". https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=888744.
- ↑ "Metopidiotrichidae Attems, 1907 | COL". https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/7NJYD.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (2015-01-01). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview" (in en). Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453 [418]. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017. ISBN 978-90-04-18827-3. https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004188273/B9789004188273_017.xml.
- ↑ 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 (2): 103–234. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1993.tb00305.x. https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/109/2/103/2646268?redirectedFrom=fulltext.
- ↑ 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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40653793#page/109/mode/1up.
- ↑ Shear, William A. (2002). "The millipede genus Metopidiothrix Attems (Diplopoda : Chordeumatida: Metopidiotrichidae)" (in en). Invertebrate Systematics 16 (6): 849–892. doi:10.1071/IS02005. ISSN 1445-5226. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248899901.
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). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037240. PMID 22615951. Bibcode: 2012PLoSO...737240B.
- Golovatch, Sergei I.; Kime, R. Desmond (2009). "Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review". Soil Organisms 81: 565–597. http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/soilorganisms/volume_81_3/24_golovatch.pdf.
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