Abacion

Abacion
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Callipodida
Family:	Abacionidae
Genus:	Abacion Rafinesque, 1820

Abacion is a genus of crested millipedes in the family Abacionidae. There are about 10 described species in Abacion. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Species

These 10 species belong to the genus Abacion:

• Abacion creolum (Chamberlin, 1942)
• Abacion highlandense (Hoffman, 1950)
• Abacion jonesi (Chamberlin, 1942)
• Abacion lactarium (Say, 1821)
• Abacion magnum (Loomis, 1943)
• Abacion spinosa (Sager, 1856)
• Abacion tesselatum Rafinesque, 1820
• Abacion texense (Loomis, 1937)
• Abacion texensis (Loomis, 1937)
• Abacion wilhelminae Shelley, McAllister & Hollis, 2003

Identification

Abacion are large, dark brown millipedes with six primary dorsel crests between pore crests on body ring 12. ^[5]

References

1. "Abacion Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
2. "Abacion". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
3. "Abacion genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
4. Shelley, R. M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
5. 1. Balaban 2. Balaban 3. Hennen, 1. John 2. Jane 3. Derek (6 March 2007). "Family Abacionidae - BugGuide". BugGuide.

Further reading

• Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. Vol. 8. ISBN   9781884549120.
• Golovatch, Sergei I.; Kime, R. Desmond (2009). "Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review" (PDF). Soil Organisms. 81: 565–597. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2018-05-06.

External links

• Media related to Abacion at Wikimedia Commons