Biology:Polyxenidae

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Short description: Family of millipedes

Polyxenidae
Temporal range: Barremian–Present
The strangest millipede ever ... (8053641856).jpg
Polyxenus lagurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Myriapoda
Class:
Diplopoda
Subclass:
Penicillata
Order:
Polyxenida
Family:
Polyxenidae

Lucas, 1840
Four species of Unixenus from Australia. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.

Polyxenidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polyxenida containing approximately 47 species in 19 genera.[1][2] Adults in all species in this family have 13 pairs of legs.[3]

Genera

  • Allographis Silvestri 1948
  • Anopsxenus Condé & Jacquemin 1963
  • Chilexenus Silvestri 1948
  • Eudigraphis Silvestri 1948
  • Macroxenodes Silvestri 1948
  • Macroxenus Brölemann 1917
  • Mauritixenus Verhoeff 1939
  • Mesoxenontus Silvestri 1948
  • Miopsxenus Condé 1951
  • Monographis Attems 1907
  • Monoxenus Jones 1937
  • Pauropsxenus Silvestri 1948 (Fossil species known from Burmese amber, Cenomanian)
  • Pollyxenus Latreille 1802/1803
  • Polyxenus Latzel 1884
  • Propolyxenus Silvestri 1948
  • Saroxenus Cook 1896
  • Silvestrus Jones 1937
  • Typhloxenus Condé 1955
  • Unixenus Jones 1944
  • †Electroxenus Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin and Azar 2004 Lebanese amber, Barremian
  • †Libanoxenus Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin and Azar 2004 Lebanese amber, Barremian

See also

References

  1. ↑ Spelda, J. "SysMyr: Systematic Myriapod Database (version Apr 2013).". Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 17th October 2013. http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/14815987. Retrieved 24 October 2013. 
  2. ↑ Shear, W. (2011). "Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844". in Zhang, Z.-Q.. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. 3148. 159–164. ISBN 978-1-86977-850-7. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p164.pdf. 
  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. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017. ISBN 9789004188273. https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004188273/B9789004188273_017.xml. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q9347225 entry




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