Polyxenidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polyxenida containing approximately 47 species in 19 genera.[1][2] All adults in this family have 13 pairs of legs.[3]

Polyxenidae
Temporal range: Barremian–Present
Polyxenus lagurus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Polyxenida
Family: Polyxenidae
Lucas, 1840
Four species of Unixenus from Australia. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.

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References

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  1. ^ Spelda, J. "SysMyr: Systematic Myriapod Database (version Apr 2013)". Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 17th October 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  2. ^ Shear, W. (2011). "Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844" (PDF). In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.). Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Vol. 3148. pp. 159–164. ISBN 978-1-86977-850-7. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (1 January 2015). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview". Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017. ISBN 9789004188273.
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