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Genus of millipedes

Orthoporus
Orthoporus sp. in New Mexico
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Spirostreptida
Family: Spirostreptidae
Genus: Orthoporus
Silvestri, 1897
Type species
Orthoporus diaporoides
Silvestri, 1897
Synonyms

Diaporus Silvestri, 1897
Scaphiostreptus Brolemann, 1902
Gymnostreptus (Trinidadius) Verhoeff, 1941

Orthoporus is a genus of spirostreptid millipedes, containing around 80 species, distributed from the southern United States to Brazil and Argentina.

References

  1. "Orthoporus". The Encyclopedia of Life.
  2. Hoffman, R. L. (1999). "Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America". Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. 8: 1–553.
Taxon identifiers
Orthoporus


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