| Hylomus | |
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| Hylomus yuani from Liangfeng Cave | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Order: | Polydesmida |
| Family: | Paradoxosomatidae |
| Subfamily: | Paradoxosomatinae |
| Tribe: | Orthomorphini |
| Genus: | Hylomus Cook and Loomis, 1924 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Hylomus draco Cook & Loomis, 1924 | |
| Species [2] | |
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Hylomus is a genus of millipede of the family Paradoxosomatidae found in southeast Asia. [3] [4] [5] [6]
| Binomial names | Authority | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Hylomus asper | (Attems | 1937) |
| Hylomus cattienensis | (Nguyen, Golovatch & Anichkin | 2005) |
| Hylomus cervarius | (Attems | 1953) |
| Hylomus cornutus | (Zhang & Li | 1982) |
| Hylomus draco | Cook & Loomis | 1924 |
| Hylomus enghoffi | (Nguyen, Golovatch & Anichkin | 2005) |
| Hylomus eupterygotus | (Golovatch, Li, Liu & Geoffroy | 2012) |
| Hylomus getuhensis | (Liu, Golovatch & Tian | 2014) |
| Hylomus grandis | (Golovatch, VandenSpiegel & Semenyuk | 2016) |
| Hylomus hostilis | (Golovatch & Enghoff | 1994) |
| Hylomus jeekeli | (Golovatch & Enghoff | 1994) |
| Hylomus lingulatus | (Liu, Golovatch & Tian | 2014) |
| Hylomus laos | Nguyen & Sierwald | 2019 |
| Hylomus laticollis | (Liu, Golovatch & Tian | 2016) |
| Hylomus longispinus | (Loksa | 1960) |
| Hylomus lui | (Golovatch, Li, Liu & Geoffroy | 2012) |
| Hylomus minutuberculus | (Zhang | 1986) |
| Hylomus nodulosus | (Liu, Golovatch & Tian | 2014) |
| Hylomus parvulus | (Liu, Golovatch & Tian | 2014) |
| Hylomus phasmoides | (Liu, Golovatch & Tian | 2016) |
| Hylomus pilosus | (Attems | 1937) |
| Hylomus propinquus | Golovatch | 2019 |
| Hylomus proximus | (Nguyen, Golovatch & Anichkin | 2005) |
| Hylomus rhinoceros | (Likhitrakarn, Golovatch & Panha | 2015) |
| Hylomus rhinoparvus | (Likhitrakarn, Golovatch & Panha | 2015) |
| Hylomus scolopendroides | (Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauriès | 2010) |
| Hylomus scutigeroides | (Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauriès | 2010) |
| Hylomus similis | (Liu, Golovatch & Tian | 2016) |
| Hylomus simplex | (Golovatch, VandenSpiegel & Semenyuk | 2016) |
| Hylomus simplipodus | (Liu, Golovatch & Tian | 2016) |
| Hylomus solenophorus | Nguyen, Nguyen & Eguchi | 2021 |
| Hylomus specialis | (Nguyen, Golovatch & Anichkin | 2005) |
| Hylomus spectabilis | (Attems | 1937) |
| Hylomus spinitergus | (Liu, Golovatch & Tian | 2016) |
| Hylomus srisonchaii | Golovatch | 2019 |
| Hylomus spinissimus | (Golovatch, Li, Liu & Geoffroy | 2012) |
| Hylomus variabilis | (Liu, Golovatch & Tian | 2016) |
| Hylomus yuani | Liu & Wynne | 2019 |
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