Polyxenidae

Polyxenidae; Temporal range: Barremian–Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Polyxenus lagurus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Polyxenida
Family:	Polyxenidae; Lucas, 1840

Four species of *Unixenus* from Australia. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.

Polyxenidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polyxenida containing approximately 47 species in 19 genera.^[1]^[2] Adults in all species in this family have 13 pairs of legs.^[3]

Genera[edit]

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

References[edit]

^ Spelda, J. "SysMyr: Systematic Myriapod Database (version Apr 2013)". Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 17th October 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
^ 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. Vol. 3148. pp. 159–164. ISBN 978-1-86977-850-7. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
^ Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (1 January 2015). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview". Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017. ISBN 9789004188273.

External links[edit]

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[1] Spelda, J. "SysMyr: Systematic Myriapod Database (version Apr 2013)". Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 17th October 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2013.

[Shear2011-2] 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. Vol. 3148. pp. 159–164. ISBN 978-1-86977-850-7. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)

[3] Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (1 January 2015). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview". Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017. ISBN 9789004188273.

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