Kirkayakidae

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Kirkayakidae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Chordeumatida
Superfamily: Neoatractosomatoidea
Family: Kirkayakidae
Synonyms [1]

Altajellidae

Kirkayakidae is a family of millipedes belonging to the order Chordeumatida. [1] This family was formerly known as Altajellidae. [2] Adult millipedes in this family have 28 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last) rather than the 30 segments usually found in chordeumatidans. [3]

Taxonomy

The family contains the following four genera: [1] [4]

This family was previously known as Altajellidae before genus Altajella was synonymised with Kirkayakus. [1] [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 MilliBase. Sierwald, P.; Spelda, J. (eds.). "Kirkayakidae Özdikmen, 2008". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  2. ↑ "MilliBase - Altajellidae Mikhaljova & Golovatch, 2001". www.millibase.org. Retrieved 2022-03-04.
  3. ↑ Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (2015-01-01). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview" . Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017. ISBN   978-90-04-15612-8.
  4. ↑ "Altajellidae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  5. ↑ Özdikmen, H. (2008). "New family and genus names, Kirkayakidae nom. nov. and Kirkayakus nom. nov., for the millipedes (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida)" (PDF). Munis Entomology and Zoology. 3 (1): 342–344.
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