Rhiscosomides

Rhiscosomides is a genus of millipedes in the order Chordeumatida with seven described species, and is the only genus in the family Rhiscosomididae.[1][2][3] Adult millipedes in this family have 30 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last).[4][5]

Rhiscosomides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Chordeumatida
Family: Rhiscosomididae
Genus: Rhiscosomides
Silvestri, 1909

References
  1. "Rhiscosomididae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  2. "Browse Rhiscosomididae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  3. Shelley, R.M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  4. Enghoff, Henrik; Dohle, Wolfgang; Blower, J. Gordon (1993). "Anamorphosis in Millipedes (Diplopoda) — The Present State of Knowledge with Some Developmental and Phylogenetic Considerations". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 109: 103–234.
  5. Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (2015-01-01). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview". Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017.

Further reading
  • Lee, Paul; Harding, P. (2006). Atlas of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Britain and Ireland. Vol. 59. Pensoft.
  • Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History.
  • Foddai, Donatella; Dallai, Romano (1995). Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, Symphyla. Calderini.
  • Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.


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