Global InformationFloridobolus information
| Florida scrub millipedes | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Subphylum: | Myriapoda
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| Class: | Diplopoda
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| Order: | Spirobolida
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| Family: | Floridobolidae Keeton, 1959
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| Genus: | Floridobolus Causey, 1957
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| Type species | |
| Floridobolus penneri Causey, 1957
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Floridobolus is a genus of millipedes commonly known as Florida scrub millipedes containing three described species: Floridobolus penneri, F. orini, and F. floydi; the latter two described in 2014. All three species are endemic to Florida scrub habitat of peninsular Florida, and F. penneri is considered a critically imperiled species by NatureServe. Prior to the description of F. orini, the genus (then only a single species) was considered the sole member of the family Floridobolidae, named by William T. Keeton in 1959,[1] however studies in 2014 have argued that Floridobolus does not represent a distinct family but rather is a basal member of the family Spirobolidae, representing the subfamily Floridobolinae, and tribe Floridobolini.[2][3]
- ^ Keeton, W. T. (1959). "A new family for the diplopod genus Floridobolus (Spirobolida, Spirobolidea)". Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 54 (1): 1–7.
- ^ Shelley, R.; Floyd, S. (2014). "Expanded concept of the milliped family Spirobolidae (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Spirobolidea): Proposals of Aztecolini n. tribe and Floridobolinae/ini and Tylobolini n. stats.; (re) descriptions of Floridobolus and F. penneri, both Causey, 1957, and F. orini n. sp.; hypotheses on origins and affinities". Insecta Mundi. 357: 1–50.
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