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BioKIDS - Kids'Inquiry of Diverse Species, Critter Catalog, Diplopoda, millipedes.
The fauna, which has no fewer than 103 species, 39 genera, 17 families, and five orders, is reviewed and summarised. A historical account, a review of the morphology and ecology of the millipedes in the region, and zoogeographical notes are provided.
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.
The diplopods and the chilopods are two relatively small classes belonging to the largest phylum on Earth. Phylum Arthropoda contains a wide array of animals from spiders to crustaceans to every other bug, mite, or tick on the planet.
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.