Polyxenida
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Polyxenida is an order of millipedes readily distinguished by a unique body plan consisting of a soft, non-calcified body ornamented with tufts of bristles. These features have inspired the common nam
Polyxenus.lagurus.1
Segmentation of Polyxenida millipedes. From top to bottom: Lophoturus madecassus Other Lophoproctidae and Polyxenidae Condexenus biramipalpus and Phryssonotus brevicapensis Other Phryssonotus
Phryssonotus brevicapensis (Synxenidae), a species from South Africa described in 2011
Millipede collage
Lophoproctidae
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Lophoproctidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polyxenida containing approximately 43 species in 6 genera.
Polyxenida
…It contains the following subdivisions: Superfamily Polyxenoidea Lucas, 1840 Family Lophoproctidae Silvestri, 1897 Family Polyxenidae Lucas, 1840 Subfamily Hypogexeninae Schubart, 1947 Subfamily Macroxeninae Condé, 2008 Subfamily Monographinae Condé…
Lophoproctus coecus illustration
Three Lophoturus species from Queensland, Australia: (A) L. queenslandicus, (B) L. boondallus, (C) L. molloyensis