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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Flat-backed Millipedes (Polydesmida) » Nearctodesmidae

Family Nearctodesmidae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Millipede - Nearctodesmidae? - Nearctodesmus salix Portland Bioblitz 2012 PDX28 - female Vashon BioBlitz 2012 - millipede??? - Nearctodesmus Family Nearctodesmidae? in WA Pseudopolydesmus? - Nearctodesmus salix Nearctodesmus? millipede found under concrete block near house - Kepolydesmus anderisus - male millipede found under concrete block near house - Kepolydesmus anderisus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Myriapoda (Myriapods)
Class Diplopoda (Millipedes)
Order Polydesmida (Flat-backed Millipedes)
Family Nearctodesmidae
Explanation of Names
Nearctodesmidae Chamberlin & Hoffman 1950
Numbers
25 spp. in 7 genera total(1)
Identification
Smooth metaterga, with few or no setae, are characteristic (Shear et al. 2009)
Range
along the Pacific from the Queen Charlotte Is., BC, to San Francisco Bay; also e.WA, n.ID, w.MT + adjacent BC. ‒Rowland Shelley
Works Cited
1.Sierwald P., Spelda J. (2023) MilliBase
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 3 August, 2009 - 12:02am
Additional contributions by v belov, DerekHennen, biosam
Last updated 1 November, 2023 - 9:46pm

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