Faginidae Explained

Faginidae is a family of millipedes belonging to the order Chordeumatida.^[1] Adult millipedes in this family have only 28 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last), not the 30 segments usually found in this order.^[2]

Genera:

• Fagina Attems, 1904

Notes and References

1. Web site: Faginidae . www.gbif.org . 6 June 2021 . en.
2. Enghoff . Henrik . Dohle . Wolfgang . Blower . J. Gordon . 1993 . Anamorphosis in Millipedes (Diplopoda) — The Present State of Knowledge with Some Developmental and Phylogenetic Considerations . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 109 . 2 . 103–234. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1993.tb00305.x .