Pauropodidae
Sign in to savePauropodidae is a family of pauropods in the order Tetramerocerata. This group is the most diverse family of pauropods, containing 27 genera and more than 800 species. These pauropods usually live in the soil on mountains and hills.
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Vinony's link graph records 6 inbound references to Pauropodidae, and connects out to Pauropoda, Animalia and Antarctica.
Vinony files it under Myriapod families, Pauropoda and Taxa named by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
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FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassPauropoda
- OrderTetramerocerata
- FamilyPauropodidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 68
- Family
- Pauropodidae
- Collections
- AM, WAM, EMEC
- Recorded in
- Australia, French Polynesia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Tetramerocerata
- Image
- Pauropus huxleyi.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pauropodidae
- taxon name
- Pauropodidae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Pauropodidae
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- Distribution
- Fossil record
- Genera
- References
- External links
Pauropodidae is a family of pauropods in the order Tetramerocerata. This group is the most diverse family of pauropods, containing 27 genera and more than 800 species. These pauropods usually live in the soil on mountains and hills.
== Description == Pauropods in this family are generally whitish and small, less than 2 mm in length. These pauropods feature a ventral antennal branch with one seta and one globulus (i.e., spheroid sense organ). The dorsal surface of the head features a single anterior seta and four transverse rows of setae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pauropodidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.