Polyxenidae

Polyxenidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polyxenida containing approximately 47 species in 19 genera.[1][2]

Polyxenidae
Temporal range: Barremian–Present
Polyxenus lagurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Myriapoda
Class:
Diplopoda
Subclass:
Penicillata
Order:
Polyxenida
Family:
Polyxenidae

Lucas, 1840
Four species of Unixenus from Australia. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.

Genera
  • Allographis Silvestri 1948
  • Anopsxenus Condé & Jacquemin 1963
  • Chilexenus Silvestri 1948
  • Eudigraphis Silvestri 1948
  • Macroxenodes Silvestri 1948
  • Macroxenus Brölemann 1917
  • Mauritixenus Verhoeff 1939
  • Mesoxenontus Silvestri 1948
  • Miopsxenus Condé 1951
  • Monographis Attems 1907
  • Monoxenus Jones 1937
  • Pauropsxenus Silvestri 1948 (Fossil species known from Burmese amber, Cenomanian)
  • Pollyxenus Latreille 1802/1803
  • Polyxenus Latzel 1884
  • Propolyxenus Silvestri 1948
  • Saroxenus Cook 1896
  • Silvestrus Jones 1937
  • Typhloxenus Condé 1955
  • Unixenus Jones 1944
  • †Electroxenus Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin and Azar 2004 Lebanese amber, Barremian
  • †Libanoxenus Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin and Azar 2004 Lebanese amber, Barremian

See also

References
  1. Spelda, J. "SysMyr: Systematic Myriapod Database (version Apr 2013)". Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 17th October 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  2. Shear, W. (2011). "Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844" (PDF). In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.). Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa. 3148. pp. 159–164. ISBN 978-1-86977-850-7.


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