Oxidus
Appearance
Oxidus | |
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Oxidus gracilis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
Class: | Diplopoda |
Order: | Polydesmida |
Family: | Paradoxosomatidae |
Genus: | Oxidus Cook, 1911 |
Oxidus is a genus of flat-backed millipedes in the family Paradoxosomatidae. There are about nine described species in Oxidus.[1][2][3][4]
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Species
[edit]These nine species belong to the genus Oxidus:
- Oxidus avia (Verhoeff, 1937)
- Oxidus circofera (Verhoeff, 1931)
- Oxidus filarius (Attems, 1932)
- Oxidus gigas (Attems, 1953)
- Oxidus gracilis (Koch, 1847) (greenhouse millipede)
- Oxidus kosingai (Wang, 1958)
- Oxidus obtusus (Takakuwa, 1942)
- Oxidus riukiaria (Verhoeff, 1940)
- Oxidus sontus (Chamberlin, 1910)
References
[edit]- ^ "Oxidus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
- ^ "Oxidus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
- ^ "Oxidus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
- ^ Shelley, R. M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
Further reading
[edit]- 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 2019-12-25.
- Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. Vol. 8. ISBN 9781884549120.
External links
[edit]Media related to Oxidus at Wikimedia Commons