Choctella is a genus of millipedes in the monotypic family Choctellidae. Its two species are native to the south-eastern United States. C. cumminsi Chamberlin, 1918, occurs on the Cumberland Plateau from central Tennessee to northern Alabama and C. hubrichti Hoffman, 1965, occurs in central Alabama.[1][2]
| Choctella | |
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| Choctella cumminsi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Order: | Spirostreptida |
| Family: | Choctellidae Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1950 |
| Genus: | Choctella Chamberlin, 1918 |
References
edit- ^ Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN 9781884549120.
- ^ Shear, W. (2011). "Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 159–164. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.32.
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