Choctella
Appearance
Choctella | |
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Choctella cumminsi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
Class: | Diplopoda |
Order: | Spirostreptida |
Family: | Choctellidae Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1950 |
Genus: | Choctella Chamberlin, 1918 |
Choctella is a genus of millipedes in the monotypic family Choctellidae. Its two species are native to the south-eastern United States. C. cumminsi Chamberlin, 1918, occurs on the Cumberland Plateau from central Tennessee to northern Alabama and C. hubrichti Hoffman, 1965, occurs in central Alabama.[1][2]
References
- ^ Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN 9781884549120.
- ^ Shear, W. (2011). "Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 159–164.