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Polyxenidae
Sign in to savethumb|Four species of Unixenus from Australia. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.
Species
børstetusenbein
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassDiplopoda
- OrderPolyxenida
- FamilyPolyxenidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 228
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Polyxenidae
- Collections
- UQROO, UCMP, UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY GENOMICS, VPI, INHS, NMV
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Canada, Colombia, United States, Australia, Bermuda, Ecuador, Panamá
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- The strangest millipede ever ... (8053641856).jpg
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- taxon name
- Polyxenidae
- Commons category
- Polyxenidae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Polyxenidae
- taxon common name
- børstetusenbeinfamilien
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Description
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thumb|Four species of Unixenus from Australia. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.
Polyxenidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polyxenida. This family includes 109 species distributed among 23 genera. This family has a worldwide distribution, with species found on all continents except Antarctica.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polyxenidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.