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Genus Tidesmus

This isn't another Oxidus gracilis, is it? - Tidesmus episcopus This isn't another Oxidus gracilis, is it? - Tidesmus episcopus millipede - Tidesmus episcopus millipede - Tidesmus episcopus millipede - Tidesmus episcopus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Myriapoda (Myriapods)
Class Diplopoda (Millipedes)
Order Polydesmida (Flat-backed Millipedes)
Family Macrosternodesmidae
Genus Tidesmus
Explanation of Names
Tidesmus Chamberlin 1943
Numbers
4-5 spp., all in our area(1)
Range
Coastal so. CA & adjacent Baja to c./se. AZ; potentially sw. NM and n. Sonora, Mexico(1)
Works Cited
1.The milliped genus Tidesmus Chamberlin, 1943 (Polydesmida: Macrosternodesmidae)
Shear W.A., Shelley R.M. 2007. Zootaxa 1656: 51–68.