{{Short description|Family of millipedes}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Rhachodesmidae | authority = Carl, 1903 }}
'''Rhachodesmidae''' is a family of flat-backed millipedes in the order Polydesmida. There are more than 20 genera and at least 80 described species in Rhachodesmidae.<ref name=itis/><ref name=gbif/><ref name=Shelley/>
==Genera== These 21 genera belong to the family Rhachodesmidae: {{Div col|colwidth=22em}} * ''Aceratophallus'' <small>Carl, 1902</small> * ''Acutangulus'' <small>Attems, 1898</small> * ''Ceuthauxus'' <small>Chamberlin, 1942</small> * ''Chromodesmus'' <small>Loomis, 1977</small> * ''Cornalatus'' <small>Attems, 1931</small> * ''Curodesmus'' <small>Chamberlin, 1922</small> * ''Diuncustoma'' <small>Shelley, 1997</small> * ''Dobrodesmus'' * ''Euphallus'' <small>Chamberlin, 1953</small> * ''Metaphallus'' <small>Chamberlin, 1952</small> * ''Mexidesmus'' <small>Loomis, 1977</small> * ''Neoleptodesmus'' <small>Carl, 1903</small> * ''Pararhachistes'' <small>Pocock, 1909</small> * ''Rhachidomorpha'' <small>De Saussure, 1860</small> * ''Rhachodesmus'' <small>Cook, 1895</small> * ''Sakophallus'' <small>Chamberlin, 1941</small> * ''Strongylodesmus'' <small>De Saussure, 1859</small> * ''Tancitares'' <small>Chamberlin, 1942</small> * ''Teinorhachis'' <small>Loomis, 1961</small> * ''Tiphallus'' <small>Chamberlin, 1952</small> * ''Unculabes'' <small>Causey, 1971</small> {{Div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=itis> {{Cite web| title=Rhachodesmidae Report | url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=569036 | website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System | access-date=2019-12-30 }}</ref>
<ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=Rhachodesmidae | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/8242 | website=GBIF | access-date=2019-12-30 }}</ref>
<ref name=Shelley> {{Cite web | access-date = 2019-07-02 | title = The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals | last1 = Shelley | first1 = R. M. | publisher = University of Tennessee | url = https://ag.tennessee.edu/EPP/Pages/Nadiplochilo/Nadiplochilo.aspx }}</ref> }}
==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite journal | title = Millipede Taxonomy after 250 Years: Classification and Taxonomic Practices in a Mega-Diverse yet Understudied Arthropod Group | date = 2012 | last1 = Brewer | first1 = M. S. | last2 = Sierwald | first2 = P. | last3 = Bond | first3 = J. E. | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 7| issue = 5| article-number = e37240 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0037240 | bibcode=2012PLoSO...737240B | pmc=3352885 | pmid=22615951 | doi-access = free }} * {{Cite journal | title = Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review | date = 2009 | last1 = Golovatch | first1 = Sergei I. | last2 = Kime | first2 = R. Desmond | journal = Soil Organisms | volume = 81| issue = 3 | pages = 565–597 | url = https://www.senckenberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/24_golovatch.pdf }} * {{Cite book | title = Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America | date = 1999 | last1 = Hoffman | first1 = Richard L. | series = Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications| volume = 8 | isbn = 978-1-884549-12-0 }} * {{Cite journal | title = Current status of the myriapod class Diplopoda (millipedes): taxonomic diversity and phylogeny | date = 2007 | last1 = Sierwald | first1 = Petra | last2 = Bond | first2 = Jason E. | journal = Annual Review of Entomology | volume = 52| pages = 401–420 | doi = 10.1146/annurev.ento.52.111805.090210 | pmid=17163800 }} {{refend}}
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Category:Polydesmida Category:Millipedes of North America Category:Millipede families
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