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

Polyxenidae Lucas, 1840

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Macroxenus Brolemann, 1917
Mesoxenontus Silvestri, 1948
Polyxeninae Lucas, 1840
Propolyxenus Silvestri, 1948

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: フサヤスデ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Norwegian Bokmål: børstetusenbein sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: børstetusenbein sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: penseldubbelfotingar

Literature

original description	Lucas, H. (1840). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Myriapodes. P. Duménil, Paris. 600 pp. + 46 plates (inclusive).
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	Kime, R. D.; Enghoff, H. (2011). Atlas of European Millipedes (Class Diplopoda) Volume 1 Orders Polyxenida, Glomerida, Platydesmida, Siphonocryptida, Polyzoniida, Callipodida, Polydesmida. Fauna Europaea Evertebrata. 3: 1-282; June 2011.
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	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	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, 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, 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.
additional source	Condé, B.; Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, M. (1987). Le statut de Polyxenus ceylonicus Pocock et de Polyxenus poecilus Chamberlin (Diplopodes Penicillates). Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol, 24(1): 99-107
additional source	Short, M. (2020). A new species of Macroxenus Brölemann, 1917 from Peru (Diplopoda: Polyxenida: Polyxenidae). Arthropoda Selecta. 29(4): 408-412.
taxonomy source	Minelli, A. (2015). Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2. Brill, Leiden; Boston. 482 pp.
taxonomy source	I.C.Z.N. (1970). Opinion 905: Polyxenus Latreille [1802-1803]: Valdidation of Emendation from Pollyxenus. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 27: 6-7.
taxonomy source	Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
taxonomy source	Jeekel, C. A. W. (1971). Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: A list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging, 5: 1-412. Amsterdam