Abacion is a genus of crested millipedes in the family Abacionidae. There are about 10 described species in Abacion.[1][2][3][4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Order: | Callipodida |
| Family: | Abacionidae |
| Genus: | Abacion Rafinesque, 1820 |
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Species
editThese 10 species belong to the genus Abacion:
- Abacion creolum (Chamberlin, 1942)
- Abacion highlandense (Hoffman, 1950)
- Abacion jonesi (Chamberlin, 1942)
- Abacion lactarium (Say, 1821)
- Abacion magnum (Loomis, 1943)
- Abacion spinosa (Sager, 1856)
- Abacion tesselatum Rafinesque, 1820
- Abacion texense (Loomis, 1937)
- Abacion texensis (Loomis, 1937)
- Abacion wilhelminae Shelley, McAllister & Hollis, 2003
Identification
editAbacion are large, dark brown millipedes with six primary dorsel crests between pore crests on body ring 12. [5]
References
edit- ^ "Abacion Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Abacion". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Abacion genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ Shelley, R. M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ^ 1. Balaban 2. Balaban 3. Hennen, 1. John 2. Jane 3. Derek (6 March 2007). "Family Abacionidae - BugGuide". BugGuide.
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Further reading
edit- Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. Vol. 8. ISBN 9781884549120.
- Golovatch, Sergei I.; Kime, R. Desmond (2009). "Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review" (PDF). Soil Organisms. 81: 565–597. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
External links
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Media related to Abacion at Wikimedia Commons
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