Glomeridesmida
Not to be confused with Glomerida.
| Glomeridesmida | |
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| Termitodesmus ceylonicus | |
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| Glomeridesmus trinidadensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Subclass: | Chilognatha |
| Infraclass: | Pentazonia |
| Superorder: | Limacomorpha Pocock, 1894 |
| Order: | Glomeridesmida Cook, 1895 |
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Glomeridesmida is an order of millipedes in the infraclass Pentazonia containing 2 families and at least 31 species.[1] Glomeridesmida is the only living order of the superorder Limacomorpha. Glomeridesmidans are small (less than 15 mm (0.59 in)) and somewhat flattened, possess 22 body segments, and unlike other orders of Pentazonia, are unable to roll into a ball.[2] Glomeridesmidans occur in the New World Tropics, Southeast Asia, India, and Oceania.[3] Two species are known cave-dwellers, and, like other troglomorphic animals are translucent from loss of pigment. The five known species of Termitodesmus (constituting the family Termitodesmidae) have a commensal relationship with termites.[4]
Classification
- Glomeridesmidae Latzel, 1884 - 31 species; India, South America, Middle America
- Termitodesmidae Silvestri, 1911 - 5 species; India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam
References
- ↑ Shear, W (2011). "Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844" (PDF). In Zhang, Z.-Q. Animal biodiversity : an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148. pp. 159–164.
- ↑ Shelley, Rowland M. (1999). "Centipedes and Millipedes with Emphasis on North American Fauna.". The Kansas School Naturalist 45 (3): 1–16.
- ↑ Shelley, Rowland M. (2011). "The Milliped order Glomeridesmida (Diplopoda: Pentazonia: Limacomorpha) in Oceania, the East Indies, and southeastern Asia; first records from Palau, the Philippines, Vanuatu, New Britain, the Island of New Guinea, Cambodia, Thailand, and Borneo and Sulawesi, Indonesia". Insecta Mundi 196: 1–11.
- ↑ Iniesta, L. F. M., Ferreira, R. L., & Wesener, T. (2012). "The first troglobitic Glomeridesmus from Brazil, and a template for a modern taxonomic description of Glomeridesmida (Diplopoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa 3550: 26–42.
External links
Media related to Glomeridesmida at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Glomeridesmida at Wikispecies- Photographs of Glomeridesmidans
- Discovery of a translucent ancient millipede in a threatened iron-ore cave in Brazil, research from the Museum Koenig.
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