Biology:Orthomorpha
| Orthomorpha | |
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| Orthomorpha picturata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Order: | Polydesmida |
| Family: | Paradoxosomatidae |
| Subfamily: | Paradoxosomatinae |
| Tribe: | Orthomorphini |
| Genus: | Orthomorpha Bollman, 1893[1] |
| Type species | |
| Polydesmus beaumontii Le Guillou, 1841
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| Species | |
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c. 50 (see text) | |
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| Native range of Orthomorpha | |
Orthomorpha is a genus of millipedes in the family Paradoxosomatidae containing approximately 50 species distributed in Southeast Asia.
Description
Species of Orthomorpha possess 20 body segments and range from 15–50 mm long as adults. They range from 1.1–3.1 mm in body width, with prominent paranota (lateral keels) extending the width to 1.5–6.7 mm. Base coloration varies from brown to black, with brightly colored paranota and markings in various shades of yellow, orange, and brown, which becomes fainter in alcohol-preserved specimens. Some species have prominent bumps or "tubercles" on their dorsal metatergal segments.[2]
Distribution
Orthomorpha species range from Myanmar in the west, through the entire Indochinese Peninsula, to Lombok, Indonesia.[2] The species O. coarctata, (also known as Asiomorpha coarctata) has been widely introduced by humans in tropics around the world.[3]
Species
The genus was revised by Likhitrakarn, Golovatch & Panha in 2011, who described several new species and assigned two to the new genus Orthomorphoides, yielding a total of 51 named species of Orthomorpha.[2] Three more species from Laos were described in 2014.[4]
References
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- ↑ Bollman, C (1893). "Notes upon the North American myriapods described by C. L. Koch". Bulletin of the United States National Museum 46: 150–152.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Likhitrakarn, Natdanai; Panha, Somsak; Golovatch, Sergei (2011). "Revision of the Southeast Asian millipede genus Orthomorpha Bollman, 1893, with the proposal of a new genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)". ZooKeys (131): 1–161. doi:10.3897/zookeys.131.1921. PMID 22140329. PMC 3208436. https://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/1921/revision-of-the-southeast-asian-millipede-genus-orthomorpha-bollman-1893-with-the-proposal-of-a-new-genus-diplopoda-poly.
- ↑ Hoffman, R. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications 8, 1–553.
- ↑ Likhitrakarn, Natdanai; Golovatch, Sergei; Panha, Somsak (2014). "The millipede genus Orthomorpha Bollman, 1893 in Laos (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), with descriptions of new species". ZooKeys (374): 1–22. doi:10.3897/zookeys.374.6711. PMID 24493962. PMC 3909809. https://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/6711/the-millipede-genus-orthomorpha-bollman-1893-in-laos-diplopoda-polydesmida-paradoxosomatidae-with-descriptions-of-new-sp.
Wikidata ☰ Q6442719 entry
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