Misplaced Pages

Spirostreptidae

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Spirostreptid) Family of millipedes

Spirostreptidae
Spirostreptus seychellarum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Spirostreptida
Family: Spirostreptidae
Brandt, 1833
Genera

See text

Spirostreptidae is a family of millipedes in the order Spirostreptida. It contains around 100 genera distributed in North and South America, the eastern Mediterranean, continental Africa, Madagascar, and Seychelles. It contains the following genera:

References

  1. Hoffman, R. L. (1999). "Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America". Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. 8: 1–553.
  2. "Spirostreptidae". The Encyclopedia of Life.
  3. Richard L. Hoffmann (2011). "Rondostreptus, a new spirostreptid genus from southeastern Tanzania (Diplopoda: Spirostreptidae)" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa. 2779: 63–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2779.1.3.
  4. Enghoff, H.; Ngute, A.S.; Kwezaura, R.L.; Laizzer, R.L.; Lyatuu, H.M.; Mhagawale, W.; Mnendendo, H.R.; Marshall, A.R. (2024-01-22). "A mountain of millipedes XI. The trachystreptoform spirostreptids of the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae)". doi:10.5852/ejt.2024.918.2405. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
Taxon identifiers
Spirostreptidae


Stub icon

This myriapoda-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: