Biology:Dalodesmidae
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Short description: Family of millipedes
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Dalodesmidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polydesmida, containing at least 250 species found in the Southern Hemisphere.
Distribution
Species of Dalodesmidae are found in Australia (over 100 species), Madagascar , New Caledonia, New Zealand, South Africa , and southern South America (Chile and southern Brazil ).[1]
Classification
Dalodesmidae is one of the major families of the order Polydesmida, with at least 55 genera and 250 species[2] (with some estimates up to 340 species[1]). It is related to the small family Vaalogonopodidae (8 species) with which it forms the suborder Dalodesmidea.[2][3]
The taxonomy is based mainly on the structure of the male gonopods.[4] Below is the list of species as of January 2014.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Robert Mesibov (5 October 2013). "Classification of Polydesmida". External Anatomy of Polydesmida. polydesmida.info. http://www.polydesmida.info/polydesmida/classify.html. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 William Shear. (2011). "Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844". In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness.—Zootaxa 3148:149—164.
- ↑ H. Enghoff (1984). "Phylogeny of millipedes – a cladistic analysis". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 22: 8–26. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.1984.tb00559.x.
- ↑ , Wikidata Q28939059
- ↑ "Dalodesmidae". Catalogue of Life: 2014. 20 January 2014. http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/15844938. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q6439233 entry
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