Diplopoda

General description: 

A very diverse group with over 12.000 species described, distributed worldwide (except Antartica) (Sierwald & Bond, 2007[1])

References

  1. P. Sierwald and Bond, J. E., “Current Status of the Myriapod Class Diplopoda (Millipedes): Taxonomic Diversity and Phylogeny”, vol. 52, pp. 401-420, 2007.
Taxonomic name: 
Diplopoda (Taxonomy)
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith