Microsphaerotherium

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Microsphaerotherium
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Sphaerotheriida
Family: Arthrosphaeridae
Genus: Microsphaerotherium
Wesener & VandenSpiegel, 2007 [1]

Microsphaerotherium is a genus of pill millipedes in the family Arthrosphaeridae. [2] [3] Only two species are currently known:

References

  1. ↑ Wesener, Thomas (2016). "The Giant Pill-Millipedes, order Sphaerotheriida – An annotated species catalogue with morphological atlas and list of apomorphies (Arthropoda: diplopoda)" (PDF). Bonn Zoological Bulletin – Supplementum. 63: 1–104.
  2. ↑ Wesener, Thomas; VandenSpiegel, Didier (2007). "Microsphaerotherium ivohibiense, a new genus and species of Giant-Pill Millipedes from Madagascar (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Arthrosphaerinae)". Journal of Afrotropical Zoology. 3: 153–160.
  3. ↑ Wesener, Thomas (May 11, 2009). "Unexplored richness: discovery of 31 new species of Giant Pill-Millipedes endemic to Madagascar, with a special emphasis on microendemism (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida)" . Zootaxa. 2097 (1): 1–134. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2097.1.1.
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