Family Parajulidae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Myriapoda (Myriapods)

Class Diplopoda (Millipedes)

Order Julida

Family Parajulidae

Explanation of Names

Parajulidae Bollman 1893

Numbers

~100 spp. in ~15 genera in our area(1), ~160 spp. in 34 genera total (8 tribes, 3 subfamilies)(2)

Range

most of NA (Alaska to Guatemala) & East Asia • the dominant millipede family in NA, occurs in the Alaskan panhandle, across Canada (BC―NB), in every state of the continental US & Mexico, and in most of Guatemala. ―Rowland Shelley

Works Cited

1.	Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America Richard L. Hoffman. 1999. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications.

2.	Sierwald P., Spelda J. (2023) MilliBase

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 6 March, 2007 - 9:01pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 10 November, 2023 - 4:33pm

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