Oxidus

Oxidus
Oxidus gracilis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Polydesmida
Family:	Paradoxosomatidae
Genus:	Oxidus Cook, 1911

Oxidus is a genus of flat-backed millipedes in the family Paradoxosomatidae. There are about nine described species in Oxidus. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Oxidus gracilis

Species

These nine species belong to the genus Oxidus:

• Oxidus avia (Verhoeff, 1937)
• Oxidus circofera (Verhoeff, 1931)
• Oxidus filarius (Attems, 1932)
• Oxidus gigas (Attems, 1953)
• Oxidus gracilis (Koch, 1847) (greenhouse millipede)
• Oxidus kosingai (Wang, 1958)
• Oxidus obtusus (Takakuwa, 1942)
• Oxidus riukiaria (Verhoeff, 1940)
• Oxidus sontus (Chamberlin, 1910)

References

1. "Oxidus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
2. "Oxidus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
3. "Oxidus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
4. Shelley, R. M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

Further reading

• 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 2019-12-25.
• Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. Vol. 8. ISBN   9781884549120.

External links

• Media related to Oxidus at Wikimedia Commons