Opiona

Opiona
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Chordeumatida
Family:	Caseyidae
Genus:	Opiona Chamberlin, 1951

Opiona is a genus of millipedes in the family Caseyidae. There are about 16 described species in Opiona. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Species

These 16 species belong to the genus Opiona:

• Opiona berryessae Gardner & Shelley, 1989
• Opiona bifurcata Gardner & Shelley, 1989
• Opiona casualis Gardner & Shelley, 1989
• Opiona columbiana Chamberlin, 1951
• Opiona communis Gardner & Shelley, 1989
• Opiona confusa Gardner & Shelley, 1989
• Opiona distincta Gardner & Shelley, 1989
• Opiona exigua Gardner & Shelley, 1989
• Opiona facetia Gardner & Shelley, 1989
• Opiona fisheri Gardner & Shelley, 1989
• Opiona goedeni Gardner & Shelley, 1989
• Opiona gonopods
• Opiona graeningi
• Opiona hatchi Causey, 1954
• Opiona scytonotoides Gardner & Shelley, 1989
• Opiona siliquae Causey, 1963

References

1. "Opiona Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
2. "Opiona". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
3. "Opiona 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.

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.