Peterjohnsiidae is a small family of millipedes belonging to the order Chordeumatida.[1] The family was first described in 1987 by Jean-Paul Mauriès.[2][3] These millipedes range from 3 mm to 8 mm in length and are found in Australia.[4] Species in this family exhibit sexual dimorphism in segment number: adult males have 30 segments, but adult females have 32 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last).[5][3] In adult males in this family, the gonopod complex involves three leg pairs (pairs 8 through 10) rather than just the two (pairs 8 and 9) usually modified into gonopods in this order.[6]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Order: | Chordeumatida |
| Superfamily: | Heterochordeumatoidea |
| Family: | Peterjohnsiidae Mauriès, 1987 |
Genera:[1]
- Peterjohnsia Mauriès, 1987
References
edit- ^ a b "Peterjohnsiidae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
- ^ "Family PETERJOHNSIIDAE Mauriès, 1987". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
- ^ a b Mauries, Jean-Paul (1987). "Craspedosomid Millipedes Discovered in Australia: Reginaterreuma, Neocambrisoma and Peterjohnsia, New Genera (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Craspedosomida)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 25 (1): 107–133 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (2015). "Diplopoda — Taxonomic Overview". In Minelli, Alessandro (ed.). The Myriapoda. Vol. 2. Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV. p. 418. ISBN 978-90-04-15612-8.
- ^ Enghoff, Henrik; Dohle, Wolfgang; Blower, J. Gordon (1993). "Anamorphosis in Millipedes (Diplopoda) — The Present State of Knowledge with Some Developmental and Phylogenetic Considerations". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 109 (2): 103–234. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1993.tb00305.x.
- ^ Shear, W. A.; Mesibov, R. (1994). "Australian chordeumatidan millipeds. I. New observations on the genus Peterjohnsia Mauries, with the description of the a new species from Tasmania (Diplopoda : Chordeumatida : Peterjohnsiidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 8 (2): 535–544. doi:10.1071/it9940535. ISSN 1447-2600.