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Discover Life - Myriapoda: Diplopoda - Millipedes.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.