Urochordeuma

Urochordeuma
Anatomical illustrations of U. bumpusi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Chordeumatida
Suborder: Striariidea
Superfamily: Striarioidea
Family: Urochordeumatidae
Silvestri, 1909
Genus: Urochordeuma
Silvestri, 1909
Species

Urochordeuma bumpusi Silvestri, 1909
Urochordeuma porona Chamberlin, 1941

Urochordeuma is a genus of millipedes in the order Chordeumatida and the only genus in the family Urochordeumatidae. Adult millipedes in this family have 30 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last).[1][2] The two species are known from the U.S. state of Washington, where U. bumpusi is known from Pierce County, and U. porona from King County.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Enghoff, Henrik; Dohle, Wolfgang; Blower, J. Gordon (1993). "Anamorphosis in Millipedes (Diplopoda) — The Present State of Knowledge with Some Developmental and Phylogenetic Considerations". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 109 (2): 103–234. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1993.tb00305.x.
  2. ↑ Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (2015-01-01). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview". Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017. ISBN 9789004156128.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  3. ↑ Hoffman, R. L. 1999. Checklist of the Millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications, 8, 1–553.