Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Myriapoda > Class Diplopoda > Subclass Penicillata

Polyxenida Verhoeff, 1934

Rank: Order
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Lophoproctidae
Polyxenoidea Lucas, 1840
Synxenidae

Literature

original description	Verhoeff, K. W. (1934). Oberklasse Progoneata. Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas, 2 (3): 1-90. Leipzig
additional source	Condé, Bruno; Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, Monique. (2008). Classification actuelle des diplopodes penicillates (Myriapodes) avec nouvelles definitions des taxa [Present classification of Diplopoda Penicillata (Myriapoda), with new definitions of taxa]. Bulletin de la societe zoologique de France. 133 (4): 291-302.
additional source	Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, Monique. (2009). Revision of the genera of Polyxenidae bearing pseudoarticulated gnathochilarial sensilla (Diplopoda, Polyxenida, Polyxenidae), with the description of two new species. Zoosystema. 31 (4): 829-848.
additional source	Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
additional source	Short, M.; Vahtera, V. (2017). Phylogenetic relationships of millipedes in the subclass Penicillata (Diplopoda) with a key to the genera. Journal of Natural History. 51(41-42): 2443-2461.
additional source	Condé, B. (1996). Une approche des Diplopoda Penicillata de l'Amerique du Nord. Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, N. S., 169: 127-135
additional source	Ishii, K.; Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, M.; Condé, B. (1999). The first penicillate millipedes from the vicinity of Manaus, Central Amazonia, Brazil (Diplopoda: Polyxenida). Amazoniana, 15(3-4): 239-267. Kiel
additional source	Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, M. (1976). Etude de la variabilité des charactères de deux espèces du genre Polyxenus, P. lagurus (L.) et P. fasciculatus SAY (Diplopode, Pénicillate). Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 3e série, Zoologie, 249: 105-118
additional source	Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, M. (2003). A new genus of Penicillata from Southern Africa with pseudoarticulated sensilla on the palpi of the gnathochilarium (Diplopoda: Polyxenida: Polyxenidae). African Invertebrates, 44(1): 71-87. Pietermaritzburg
additional source	Nguyen Duy - Jacquemin, M.; Uys, C.; Geoffroy, J.-J. (2011). Two remarkable new species of Penicillata (Diplopoda, Polyxenida) from Table Mountain National Park (Cape Town, South Africa). ZooKeys. 156: 85-103.