Polydesmida
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Polydesmida (from the Greek poly "many" and desmos "bond") is the largest order of millipedes, containing approximately 3,500 species,[2] including all the millipedes reported to produce hydrogen cyanide (HCN).[3] Polydesmids grow and develop through a series of moults, adding segments until they reach a fixed number in the adult stage, which is usually the same for a given sex in a given species, at which point the moulting and the addition of segments and legs stop.[4] This mode of development, known as teloanamorphosis, distinguishes this order from most other orders of millipedes, which usually continue to moult as adults, developing through either euanamorphosis or hemianamorphosis.[4][5]
Polydesmida | |
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Apheloria virginiensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
Class: | Diplopoda |
Subclass: | Chilognatha |
Infraclass: | Helminthomorpha |
Subterclass: | Eugnatha |
Superorder: | Merocheta Cook, 1895 |
Order: | Polydesmida Leach, 1815[1] |
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Synonyms | |
Proterospermatophora Verhoeff, 1900 |