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Phryssonotus

Phryssonotus
Phryssonotus brevicapensis.jpg
Phryssonotus brevicapensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Polyxenida
Family: Synxenidae
Genus: Phryssonotus
Scudder, 1885
Synonyms
  • Lophonotus Menge, 1854
  • Synxenus Silvestri, 1900
  • Kubanus Attems, 1926
  • Schindalmonotus Attems, 1926
  • Koubanus Attems, 1928

Phryssonotus is a genus of bristle millipedes containing around nine species. Species are characterized by the possession of dark, rear-projecting scale-shaped bristles (trichomes) on the tergites, all other bristles are long and hairlike.



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