Gomphodesmidae

Gomphodesmidae
	Tymbodesmus falcatus from Burkina Faso
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Polydesmida
Family:	Gomphodesmidae; Cook, 1896
Synonyms
	Eurydesminae Attems, 1898

Gomphodesmidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polydesmida, containing around 55 genera and 150 species.^[1]^[2] The family is native to Africa, and occurs primarily in savanna habitat (open-canopy grasslands) from South Africa north to Senegal and Ethiopia.^[3]

Genera

References

^ Shear, W (2011). Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.). "Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844. In: Animal biodiversity : an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa: 159–164.
^ Catalogue of Life 2014 checklist
^ "Geographic distribution of Millipede Families" (PDF). Milli-PEET Identification Tables. The Field Museum, Chicago. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2014.

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[Shear2011-1] Shear, W (2011). Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.). "Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844. In: Animal biodiversity : an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa: 159–164.

[2] Catalogue of Life 2014 checklist

[3] "Geographic distribution of Millipede Families" (PDF). Milli-PEET Identification Tables. The Field Museum, Chicago. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2014.

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