Boraria

Boraria
Boraria stricta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Polydesmida
Family:	Xystodesmidae
Tribe:	Rhysodesmini
Genus:	Boraria Chamberlin, 1943

Boraria is a genus of flat-backed millipedes in the family Xystodesmidae. There is one described species in Boraria. ^{[1] [2]}

Species

There is one species belonging to the genus Boraria:

• Boraria stricta (Brölemann, 1896)

References

1. Means, Jackson C.; Hennen, Derek A.; Tanabe, Tsutomu; Marek, Paul E. (2021-03-01). "Phylogenetic systematics of the millipede family Xystodesmidae". Insect Systematics and Diversity. 5 (2) 1: 1–26. doi:10.1093/isd/ixab003. hdl: 10919/102616 .
2. "Boraria". GBIF. Retrieved 2025-11-19.

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 2018-04-30.
• Shelley, R. M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

External links

• Media related to Boraria at Wikimedia Commons