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Diplopoda (millipedes).
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Diplopoda (millipedes).
http://www.museums.org.za/bio/millipedes/index.htm
Flat-backed millipede (Polydesmida) showing the 2 pairs of legs per body segment as opposed to the 1 pair found in centipedes.
Biology > Biota > Fauna > Arthropoda > Myriapoda > Diplopoda
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Jan 1, 2004
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In this article, five main morphotypes (polyxenoid, glomeroid, juloid, polydesmoid, and platydesmoid) are denoted and five ecomorphotypes, i.e. life-forms (stratobionts, troglobionts, geobionts, subcorticolous xylobionts, and epiphytobionts) are outlined.
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Based mainly on published information, the authors provide a review of the postembryonic development of millipedes (Diplopoda).
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The authors investigated the eyes of adult Phryssonotus platycephalus (Synxenidae) and Polyxenus lagurus (Polyxenidae) by light and electron microscopy.
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In an extensive study on endangered biotopes in the State of Saxony-Anhalt/Eastern Germany, the authors studied the millipede fauna of 50 dry habitats, belonging to 5 types of biotopes from 1995 to 1998 using pitfall traps.
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Contents: Foreword - by R.D. Kime - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Millipede recording in Britain and Ireland - by P.T. Harding - Check list - Distribution maps and species accounts - Alien Species - Data analysis - Conservation - Future recording - Appendices - 1.
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A review is given of the diplopod fauna of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, with special reference to that of the periodically inundated areas of the Pantanal.
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Millipedes are terrestrial uniramian antennate and mandibulate arthropods whose bodies are made up of a chain of numerous segments. The appendages of the first body segment just behing the head (collum) are absent.
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Exercise from Invertebrate Anatomy OnLine covering the systematics, natural history and external anatomy of the flat-backed millipede.
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The authors reviewed diplopod natural history and discussed the historical and current literature pertaining to millipede morphology, ecology, chemical defenses, and the paleontological record of the group's ancient history.
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