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

Polyxenus Latzel, 1884

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pollyxenus*	auct.	misapplied name

Children

Polyxenus albus Pocock, 1894
Polyxenus argentifer Verhoeff, 1921
Polyxenus chalcidicus Conde & Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, 1971
Polyxenus fasciculatus Say, 1821
Polyxenus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Polyxenus lapidicola Silvestri, 1903
Polyxenus macedonicus Verhoeff, 1952
Polyxenus oromii Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, 1996

Literature

original description	Latzel, R. (1884). Die Myriopoden der Österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie. Zweite Hälfte. Die Symphylen, Pauropoden und Diplopoden. 1-414. Wien
basis of record	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
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	Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
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	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	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	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
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.
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.