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Family Paradoxosomatidae

Possible Polydesmus - Oxidus gracilis Millipede - Oxidus gracilis Millipede - Oxidus gracilis Oxidus gracilis millipede - Oxidus gracilis Millipede - Oxidus gracilis Millipede #8 Paw Paw - Oxidus gracilis Greenhouse Millipede - Lateral - Oxidus gracilis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Myriapoda (Myriapods)
Class Diplopoda (Millipedes)
Order Polydesmida (Flat-backed Millipedes)
Family Paradoxosomatidae
Explanation of Names
Paradoxosomatidae Daday 1889
Numbers
>1,500 spp. in 210 genera (24 tribes, 10 subfamilies) worldwide • 4 spp. in our area (all adventive)(1)
Identification
"For practical purposes, the family Paradoxosomatidae can be recognized by the dorsal transverse grooves on the 'metazona' of each segment." ‒Rowland Shelley

see (1)
Range
worldwide, mostly tropical, but no native spp. in NA • in US and Canada:(2)(3)
Akamptogonus novarae CA
Helicorthomorpha holstii FL
Orthomorpha coarctata Gulf Coast
Oxidus gracilis Widespread
Works Cited
1.A new North American region colonized by the Australian millipede Akamptogonus novarae (Humbert & DeSaussure, 1869)...
Recuero E., García-París M. 2016. North-Western J. Zool. 12: 385‒389.
2.Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America
Richard L. Hoffman. 1999. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications.
3.Annotated checklist of the millipeds of Florida (Arthropoda: Diplopoda)
Rowland M. Shelley. 2000. Insecta Mundi, 14(4), 241–251.
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 1 August, 2005 - 8:25am
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov, DerekHennen, biosam
Last updated 1 November, 2023 - 9:33pm

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