Biology:Abacion
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Short description: Genus of millipedes
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Order: | Callipodida |
| Family: | Abacionidae |
| Genus: | Abacion Rafinesque, 1820 |
Abacion is a genus of crested millipedes in the family Abacionidae. There are about 10 described species in Abacion.[1][2][3][4]
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Species
These 10 species belong to the genus Abacion:
- Abacion creolum (Chamberlin, 1942)
- Abacion highlandense (Hoffman, 1950)
- Abacion jonesi (Chamberlin, 1942)
- Abacion lactarium (Say, 1821)
- Abacion magnum (Loomis, 1943)
- Abacion spinosa (Sager, 1856)
- Abacion tesselatum Rafinesque, 1820
- Abacion texense (Loomis, 1937)
- Abacion texensis (Loomis, 1937)
- Abacion wilhelminae Shelley, McAllister & Hollis, 2003
Identification
Abacion are large, dark brown millipedes with six primary dorsel crests between pore crests on body ring 12. [5]
References
- ↑ "Abacion Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=569245. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ↑ "Abacion". https://www.gbif.org/species/1011637. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ↑ "Abacion genus Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/97440. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ↑ Shelley, R. M.. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. https://ag.tennessee.edu/EPP/Pages/Nadiplochilo/Nadiplochilo.aspx. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ↑ 1. Balaban 2. Balaban 3. Hennen, 1. John 2. Jane 3. Derek (6 March 2007). "Family Abacionidae - BugGuide". https://bugguide.net/node/view/97439.
Further reading
- Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. 8. ISBN 9781884549120.
- 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. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q4296713 entry
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