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Opisthocheiridae Ribaut 1913
Creators
- 1. La Fontaine, La-Chapelle-Montmoreau, 24300 Nontron, France.
- 2. Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 25, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
Description
Family Opisthocheiridae Ribaut, 1913
In addition to the 37 SW European species, this family includes Ceratosphys maroccana Mauriès, 1985, from North Africa (see Mauriès 1985). Ceratosphys poculifer is one the few chordeumatidans which have been introduced to Macaronesia, in casu the Canary Islands.
Notes
Published as part of Kime, Richard Desmond & Enghoff, Henrik, 2021, Atlas of European millipedes 3: Order Chordeumatida (Class Diplopoda), pp. 1-244 in European Journal of Taxonomy 769 on page 129, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.769.1497, http://zenodo.org/record/5536353
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Opisthocheiridae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Chordeumatida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Ribaut
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Opisthocheiridae Ribaut, 1913 sec. Kime & Enghoff, 2021
References
- Ribaut H. 1913. Biospeologica XXVIII Ascospermophora (Myriopodes) (Premiere Serie). Archives de Zoologie experimentale et generale 5 e Serie 10: 399 - 478.
- Mauries J. - P. 1985. Polydesmide et Craspedosomides cavernicoles nouveaux de France et du Maroc (Myriapoda - Diplopoda). International Journal of Speleology 14: 51 - 62. https: // doi. org / 10.5038 / 1827 - 806 X. 14.1.6