Oxidus Explained

Oxidus is a genus of flat-backed millipedes in the family Paradoxosomatidae. There are about nine described species in Oxidus.

Species

These nine species belong to the genus Oxidus:

• Oxidus avia (Verhoeff, 1937)
• Oxidus circofera (Verhoeff, 1931)
• Oxidus filarius (Attems, 1932)
• Oxidus gigas (Attems, 1953)
• Oxidus gracilis (Koch, 1847) (greenhouse millipede)
• Oxidus kosingai (Wang, 1958)
• Oxidus obtusus (Takakuwa, 1942)
• Oxidus riukiaria (Verhoeff, 1940)
• Oxidus sontus (Chamberlin, 1910)

Further reading

• Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review. 2009. Golovatch. Sergei I.. Kime. R. Desmond. Soil Organisms. 81. 565–597. 2019-12-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230452/http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/soilorganisms/volume_81_3/24_golovatch.pdf. 2016-03-03. dead.
• Book: Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. 1999. Hoffman . Richard L.. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. 8. 9781884549120.