WoRMS taxon details
Myriapoda
AphiaID: 1277
AphiaID: 1277
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Subphylum | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Arthropoda | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Barber, A.D. (2009b) Littoral myriapods; a review. Soil Organisms 81(3):735-760 [details] additional source: Roth, V.D. & Brown, W.L. (1976) Other air-breathing arthropods in Cheng, L. Marine Insects. North-Holland Publishing, Amsterdam-Oxford, American Elsevier, New York. [details] additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa | Class Chilopoda Class Diplopoda Class Pauropoda Class Symphyla | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, brackish, terrestrial | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Acknowledgments: A large number of people have assisted in the compilation of the data for the four myriapod groups in a variety of ways through comment, providing information or by making available copies of references. [details] Classification: The four classes grouped together as "Myriapoda" (Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, Symphyla)are probably no more closely related to each other than to other orders such as Insecta. However the term Myriapoda remains a convenient one to group together these uniramian arthropods with numerous legs (8 or more pairs in adults). [details] Habitat: It is often difficult to be clear as to whether myriapods found in or close to the littoral zone are, to use Silvestri’s (1903) terminology, myriapodi halofili genuini i.e. confined to such habitats (obligate halophiles), myriapodi halofili indifferenti i.e. occurring in both terrestrial and littoral habitats (facultative halophiles) or myriapodi halofili accidentali i.e. chance occurrences (accidental halophiles). Such a situation may well be true of all “terrestrial” groups in which some species have invaded the littoral zone. Myriapods are essentially terrestrial groups of arthropods but representatives of all four classes from different orders, families and genera have colonised sea shore habitats and the situation is made more complex by species which appear to be genuini in one region but occur inland in another. The geophilomorph centipede Hydroschendyla submarina, for instance, is only ever recorded from seashores in northern Europe, the Mediterranean and Bermuda and is clearly genuini whilst Pachymerium ferrugineum is clearly indifferenti in much of its range. However, in many cases, where species are described from a single littoral site no such clarity is possible and this list may include some species which may later be considered accidentali. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1277 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Barber, A.D. (2013). Myriapoda. In: Barber, A.D. (2013) World database of littoral Myriapoda. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1277 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||||||||
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