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Tridontomidae is a small family of millipedes. Its members are endemic to Guatemala.[1] These millipedes range from 22 mm to 28 mm in length and are uniformly grayish in color; their legs and antennae are unusually long and slender.[2] This family includes the remarkable species Aenigmopus alatus, in which adult males feature no gonopods.[3][4] This millipede is the only species in the infraclass Helminthomorpha without gonopods.[5]
The family is divided into the following genera:[6]
- Aenigmopus Loomis & Hoffman, 1962
- Tridontomus Loomis & Hoffman, 1962
- ^ Hoffman, RL (1999). "Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America". Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. 8: 411.
- ^ Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (2015). "Diplopoda — Taxonomic Overview". In Minelli, Alessandro (ed.). The Myriapoda. Vol. 2. Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV. p. 396. ISBN 978 90 04 15612 8.
- ^ Mesibov, Robert. "External Anatomy of Polydesmida: Body plans". myriapodology.org. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ^ Loomis, H. F.; Hoffman, Richard L. (1962). "A remarkable new family of spined polydesmoid Diplopoda, including a species lacking gonopods in the male sex". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 75: 145–158. ISSN 0006-324X – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (2015-01-01). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview". Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017.
- ^ "Tridontomidae Loomis & Hoffman, 1962". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved September 15, 2011.