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Millipede Taxonomy after 250 Years: Classification and Taxonomic Practices in a Mega-Diverse yet Understudied Arthropod Group

BACKGROUND: The arthropod class Diplopoda is a mega-diverse group comprising >12,000 described millipede species. The history of taxonomic research within the group is tumultuous and, consequently, has yielded a questionable higher-level classification. Few higher-taxa are defined using synapomor...

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Main Authors: Brewer, Michael S., Sierwald, Petra, Bond, Jason E.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3352885/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22615951
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037240
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