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

Family Nearctodesmidae

Classification · Identification · Range
Brown, skinny millipede Millipede - Nearctodesmidae? - Nearctodesmus salix red & yellow millipede - voucher images - Kepolydesmus anderisus - male Nearctodesmus insulanus - Nearctodesmus Vashon BioBlitz 2012 - millipede??? - Nearctodesmus 5640 - Nearctodesmus Family Nearctodesmidae? in WA Family Nearctodesmidae?
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Myriapoda (Myriapods)
Class Diplopoda (Millipedes)
Order Polydesmida (Flat-backed Millipedes)
Family Nearctodesmidae
Identification
"Smooth metaterga, with few or no setae, are characteristic of nearctodesmids" -Shear et al. 2009.
Range
The Nearctodesmidae occurs along the Pacific from the Queen Charlotte Is., BC, to San Francisco Bay, and it also occurs in eastern Washington, northern Idaho, western Montana, and adjacent border of BC. -per Rowland Shelley
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 3 August, 2009 - 12:02am
Additional contributions by NormalBiology, biosam
Last updated 10 July, 2015 - 9:23pm

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