Polyxenidae

Family of millipedes

Polyxenidae
Temporal range: Barremian–Present
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Polyxenus lagurus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
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

References

  1. ^ Spelda, J. "SysMyr: Systematic Myriapod Database (version Apr 2013)". Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 17th October 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  2. ^ Shear, W. (2011). "Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844" (PDF). In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.). Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Vol. 3148. pp. 159–164. ISBN 978-1-86977-850-7. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (1 January 2015). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview". Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017. ISBN 9789004188273.

External links

  • Data related to Polyxenidae at Wikispecies
Taxon identifiers
Polyxenidae


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