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The mitogenome of Sellanucheza jaegeri was 15,623 bp long, revealed the same gene order to that of typical Polydesmida. Both the tRNASer(AGN) and tRNASer(UCN) lacked the DHU arms. No tandem repeat was found in two control regions.
Chao Yang +4 more
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Diplopoda from Rondônia, Brazil: II. Three new genera in the family Chelodesmidae (Polydesmida)
New genera are defined to accommodate three disjunct new chelodesmids endemic in Rondônia: Rondonaria n. gen., for R. schubarti n. sp.; Lithobiodesmus n. gen., for L. xenoporus n. sp., and Rhicnostethus n. gen., for the type species R. rondoni n.
Richard L. Hoffman
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A new, disjunct, diplopod genus from Espirito Santo, Brasil (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae)
The new generic and specific names Cryptosolenomeris macrogon are proposed for a large chelodesmoid milliped collected at Linhares, Espírito Santo, Brazil, and characterized particularly by the elongated gonotelopodites lacking torsion and apically ...
Richard L. Hoffman
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One hundred millipede species in Serbia (Arthropoda: Myriapoda: Diplopoda) [PDF]
The millipede fauna of Serbia consists of 100 species, 44 genera, 16 families and 7 orders. The most abundant are families Julidae (41 species or 41%) and Polydesmidae (22 species or 22%).
Antić D.Ž. +6 more
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A new species of the genus Haplocookia Brölemann, 1915 is described from Cap Bon Peninsula in Tunisia (North Africa) and a historical account of the poorly understood genera Haplocookia and Heterocookia Silvestri, 1898 is provided.
Nesrine Akkari, Jean-Paul Mauriès
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Se describe una especie nueva de chelodésmido del género Podiscodesmus para La Hispaniola. Este género se caracteriza por presentar gonopodos extremadamente pequeños y estructuras muy simples.
Antonio R. Pérez-Asso
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Worldwide distribution of cave-dwelling Chelodesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida)
Chelodesmidae is one of the most species rich families within the Myriapoda. However, little is known regarding their association with caves. We provide a list of all Chelodesmidae taxa reported from caves, map their worldwide distribution, and discuss ...
Rodrigo Bouzan +5 more
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Ultraviolet-induced fluorescent imaging for millipede taxonomy [PDF]
Fluorescent imaging has been traditionally applied to cell biology, and more recently to entomology to capture microscopic images of insect anatomy. However, the technique has not been applied to the study of millipedes, most of which autofluoresce as a ...
Paul Marek
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Polydesmida is the largest order in the class Diplopoda in terms of the number of species, genera and families, but there are few studies of the ovarian morphology of species in this order.
TG Pinheiro, MI Marques, CS Fontanetti
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Two flat-backed polydesmidan millipedes from the Miocene Chiapas-amber Lagerstätte, Mexico.
Two species of fossil polydesmidan millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) embedded in amber are described from Miocene strata near Simojovel, in the Chiapas Highlands, Mexico. Maatidesmus paachtun gen. et sp.
Francisco Riquelme +7 more
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