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Tridontomidae is a small family of millipedes. Its members are endemic to Guatemala. These millipedes range from 22 mm to 28 mm in length and are uniformly grayish in color; their legs and antennae are unusually long and slender. This family includes the remarkable species Aenigmopus alatus, in which adult males feature no gonopods. This millipede is the only species in the infraclass Helminthomorpha without gonopods.

The family is divided into the following genera:

• Aenigmopus Loomis & Hoffman, 1962
• Tridontomus Loomis & Hoffman, 1962

References

1. Hoffman, RL (1999). "Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America". Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. 8: 411.
2. Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (2015). "Diplopoda — Taxonomic Overview". In Minelli, Alessandro (ed.). The Myriapoda. Vol. 2. Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV. p. 396. ISBN 978 90 04 15612 8.
3. Mesibov, Robert. "External Anatomy of Polydesmida: Body plans". myriapodology.org. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
4. Loomis, H. F.; Hoffman, Richard L. (1962). "A remarkable new family of spined polydesmoid Diplopoda, including a species lacking gonopods in the male sex". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 75: 145–158. ISSN 0006-324X – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
5. Enghoff, Henrik; Golovatch, Sergei; Short, Megan; Stoev, Pavel; Wesener, Thomas (2015-01-01). "Diplopoda — taxonomic overview". Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2: 363–453. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017.
6. "Tridontomidae Loomis & Hoffman, 1962". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved September 15, 2011.

External links

• Data related to Tridontomidae at Wikispecies

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