Spirostreptidae
Appearance
Spirostreptidae | |
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Spirostreptus seychellarum | |
Scientific 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.[1]: 116–29 It contains the following genera:[2]
- Analocostreptus
- Anastreptus
- Anethoporus
- Archispirostreptus
- Attemsostreptus
- Aulonopygus
- Autostreptus
- Bicoxidens
- Brasilostreptus
- Brevitibius
- Bucinogonus
- Calathostreptus
- Calostreptus
- Camaricoproctus
- Cearostreptus
- Chamberlineptus
- Charactopygus
- Cladodeptus
- Cladostreptus
- Cochleostreptus
- Cochliogonus
- Collostreptus
- Conchostreptus
- Demangeptus
- Diaporus
- Dicyclostreptus
- Eiphorus
- Ellateptus
- Epistreptus
- Eumekius
- Exallostreptus
- Exospermastix
- Exospermitius
- Furcillogonus
- Globanus
- Gonepityche
- Graphidostreptus
- Guanabarastreptus
- Guanabarostreptus
- Guaporeptus
- Guviogonus
- Guyanostreptus
- Gymnostreptus
- Haplogonopus
- Helicogonus
- Helicosolenus
- Hemigymnostreptus
- Heteropyge
- Heterostreptus
- Humilistreptus
- Involverostreptus
- Ischiotrichus
- Isophyllostreptus
- Isoporostreptus
- Kartinikus
- Kochliogonopus
- Kochliogonus
- Krugerostreptus
- Lobogonus
- Lophogonus
- Lophostreptus
- Mardonius
- Mayastreptus
- Megagymnostreptus
- Megaskamma
- Metagonocoelius
- Metriostreptus
- Microtrullius
- Minasgonus
- Myostreptus
- Nanostreptus
- Nesostreptus
- Obelostreptus
- Odontostreptus
- Onychostreptus
- Ophistreptoides
- Ophistreptus
- Oreastreptus
- Orthogoneptus
- Orthoporoides
- Orthoporus
- Paulistostreptus
- Pemptoporus
- Perizonopus
- Perustreptus
- Phallorthus
- Plagiotaphrus
- Plusioporus
- Porostreptus
- Pseudogymnostreptus
- Pseudotibiozus
- Ptenogonostreptus
- Ptilostreptus
- Rhamphostreptus
- Rhapidostreptus
- Rhodesiostreptus
- Rondostreptus[3]
- Rubanostreptus
- Rutabulogonus
- Sagmatostreptus
- Scaphiostreptus
- Sechelleptus
- Skytostreptus
- Sooretama
- Sphaeromerus
- Spirocyclistus
- Spiropoeus
- Spirostreptus
- Stenostreptus
- Streptolus
- Synophryostreptus
- Telodeinopus
- Telomicropus
- Termatodiscus
- Tibiozus
- Tomogonus
- Torynopus
- Trachystreptus
- Triaenostreptus
- Trichogonostreptus
- Tropitrachelus
- Tubostreptus
- Udzungwastreptus[4]
- Urostreptus
- Urotropis
- Venezueneptus
- Vilcastreptus
- Zantekius
References
[edit]Wikispecies has information related to Spirostreptidae.
- ^ Hoffman, R. L. (1999). "Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America". Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. 8: 1–553.
- ^ "Spirostreptidae". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.