Kylindotherium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Sphaerotheriida
Family: Sphaerotheriidae
Genus: Kylindotherium
Attems , 1926
Species:
K. leve
Binomial name
Kylindotherium leve
Attems , 1926

Kylindotherium is a monotypic genus of giant Pill millipede, native to South Africa. It was first described in 1926 by Attems.[1][2][3] It consists of a single species, Kylindotherium leve.

References

  1. Cooper, Mark (2022). "The inverse latitudinal gradient in species richness of forest millipedes: Pentazonia Brandt, 1833". Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies. 10: 01–04. doi:10.22271/j.ento.2022.v10.i1a.8914.
  2. Wesener, Thomas; VandenSpiegel, Didier (December 6, 2009). "A first phylogenetic analysis of Giant Pill-Millipedes (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida), a new model Gondwanan taxon, with special emphasis on island gigantism". Cladistics. 25 (6): 545–573. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00267.x. PMID 34879594. S2CID 86041765 via CrossRef.
  3. Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1928) The Myriopoda of South Africa , Annals of the South African Museum. 26: 1-431. Edinburgh
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