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Tynommatidae
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Tynommatidae

Tynommatidae is a family of millipedes in the order Callipodida. There are about 12 genera and more than 30 described species in Tynommatidae, found mainly in western North America.

Tynommatidae was formerly considered a subfamily (Tynommatinae) of Schizopetalidae, but has been elevated in rank to family, and includes North American millipedes from the family Schizopetalidae.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Colactidinae

subfamilyColactidinae

Tynommatinae

subfamilyTynommatinae

Diactidinae

subfamilyDiactidinae

Texophoninae

subfamilyTexophoninae

Mexicopetalum

genusMexicopetalum

Aspidiophoninae

subfamilyAspidiophoninae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 999092.