Pachybolidae
| Pachybolidae | |
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| Xenobolus carnifex | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Order: | Spirobolida |
| Family: | Pachybolidae Cook, 1897 |
| Diversity | |
| c. 49 genera, species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pachybolidae is a family of round-backed millipedes of the order Spirobolida. The family includes 49 different genera.[1][2] Two subfamilies are recognized.
Subfamilies
[edit]Genera
[edit]- Alluviobolus
- Aphistogoniulus
- Atlanticobolus
- Atopochetus
- Aulacobolus
- Brachyspirobolus
- Caprobolus
- Centrobolus
- Colossobolus
- Corallobolus
- Crurifarcimen
- Dactylobolus
- Dekanbolus
- Dichromatobolus
- Epibolus
- Epitrigoniulus
- Erythroprosopon
- Eucentrobolus
- Flagellobolus
- Gabolus
- Granitobolus
- Hadrobolus
- Hyperbolus
- Komphobolus
- Litostrophus
- Madabolus
- Metiche
- Microbolus
- Mystalides
- Neptunobolus
- Ostinobolus
- Pachybolus
- Parabolus
- Pelmatojulus
- Pseudocentrobolus
- Riotintobolus
- Sanguinobolus
- Spiromanes
- Spiromimus
- Stenobolus
- Titsonobolus
- Tonkinbolus
- Trachelomegalus
- Xenobolus
- Zehntnerobolus
References
[edit]- ^ "Famaily Pachybolidae" (PDF). Zootaxa. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
- ^ Wesener, Thomas (2020-10-12). "Dichromatobolus, a new genus of spirobolidan millipedes from Madagascar (Spirobolida, Pachybolidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (720): 107–120. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.720.1119. ISSN 2118-9773.
- East African giant millipedes of the tribe Pachybolini (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae)
- Revision of the millipede subfamily Spiromiminae, a Malagasy group with Indian connections? (Diplopoda Spirobolida Pachybolidae)
- Review of the Spirobolida on Madagascar, with descriptions of twelve new genera, including three genera of 'fire millipedes' (Diplopoda).