Abacion
Appearance
Abacion | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
Class: | Diplopoda |
Order: | Callipodida |
Family: | Abacionidae |
Genus: | Abacion Rafinesque, 1820 |
Abacion is a genus of crested millipedes in the family Abacionidae. There are about 10 described species in Abacion.[1][2][3][4]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Crested_Millipede_%2834169038675%29.jpg/220px-Crested_Millipede_%2834169038675%29.jpg)
Species
[edit]These 10 species belong to the genus Abacion:
- Abacion creolum (Chamberlin, 1942)
- Abacion highlandense (Hoffman, 1950)
- Abacion jonesi (Chamberlin, 1942)
- Abacion lactarium (Say, 1821)
- Abacion magnum (Loomis, 1943)
- Abacion spinosa (Sager, 1856)
- Abacion tesselatum Rafinesque, 1820
- Abacion texense (Loomis, 1937)
- Abacion texensis (Loomis, 1937)
- Abacion wilhelminae Shelley, McAllister & Hollis, 2003
Identification
[edit]Abacion are large, dark brown millipedes with six primary dorsel crests between pore crests on body ring 12. [5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Abacion Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Abacion". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Abacion genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ Shelley, R. M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ^ 1. Balaban 2. Balaban 3. Hennen, 1. John 2. Jane 3. Derek (6 March 2007). "Family Abacionidae - BugGuide". BugGuide.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Further reading
[edit]- Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. Vol. 8. ISBN 9781884549120.
- Golovatch, Sergei I.; Kime, R. Desmond (2009). "Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review" (PDF). Soil Organisms. 81: 565–597. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
External links
[edit]Media related to Abacion at Wikimedia Commons