Furcillaria
Appearance
Furcillaria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
Class: | Diplopoda |
Order: | Polydesmida |
Family: | Xystodesmidae |
Genus: | Furcillaria Shelley, 1981 |
Furcillaria is a genus of flat-backed millipedes in the family Xystodesmidae. There are at least four described species in Furcillaria.[1][2][3][4]
Species
[edit]These four species belong to the genus Furcillaria:
- Furcillaria aequalis Shelley, 1981
- Furcillaria convoluta Shelley, 1981
- Furcillaria laminata Shelley, 1981
- Furcillaria thrinax (Shelley, 1982)
References
[edit]- ^ "Furcillaria Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Furcillaria". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Furcillaria genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ Shelley, R. M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
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 2018-05-04.