Phryssonotus is a genus of bristle millipedes containing around nine extant species. Species are characterized by the possession of dark, rear-projecting scale-shaped bristles (trichomes) on the tergites; all other bristles are long and hairlike.[1] Adults in this genus have 17 pairs of legs, except for the species Phryssonotus brevicapensis, in which they have only 15 pairs of legs.[1]
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| Genus: | Phryssonotus Scudder, 1885
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Species
edit- Phryssonotus brevicapensis
- Phryssonotus burmiticus
- Phryssonotus capensis
- Phryssonotus chilensis
- Phryssonotus cubanus
- Phryssonotus hystrix
- Phryssonotus novaehollandiae
- Phryssonotus orientalis
- Phryssonotus platycephalus
- †Phryssonotus burmiticus Cockerell 1917 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- †Phryssonotus hystrix Menge 1854 Baltic amber, Eocene
References
edit- ^ a b Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, Monique; Uys, Charmaine; Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques (2011). "Two remarkable new species of Penicillata (Diplopoda, Polyxenida) from Table Mountain National Park (Cape Town, South Africa)". ZooKeys (156): 85–103. doi:10.3897/zookeys.156.2211. PMC 3253573. PMID 22303097.
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