Glomeridesmida

Glomeridesmida
Termitodesmus ceylonicus
Glomeridesmus trinidadensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Subclass: Chilognatha
Infraclass: Pentazonia
Superorder: Limacomorpha
Pocock, 1894 
Order: Glomeridesmida
Cook, 1895 
Families

Glomeridesmida is an order of millipedes in the infraclass Pentazonia containing two families (Glomeridesmidae and Termitodesmidae) and at least 35 described species.[1] Glomeridesmida is the only living order of the superorder Limacomorpha.[2][3] Glomeridesmidans are also known as slug millipedes.[4]

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  3. ^ Shelley, Rowland M. (2011). "The Milliped order Glomeridesmida (Diplopoda: Pentazonia: Limacomorpha) in Oceania, the East Indies, and southeastern Asia; first records from Palau, the Philippines, Vanuatu, New Britain, the Island of New Guinea, Cambodia, Thailand, and Borneo and Sulawesi, Indonesia". Insecta Mundi. 196: 1–11.
  4. ^ "Slug Millipedes (Order Glomeridesmida)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2024-07-31.