| Prosopodesmus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Order: | Polydesmida |
| Family: | Haplodesmidae |
| Genus: | Prosopodesmus Silvestri, 1910 |
| Type species | |
| Prosopodesmus jacobsoni Silvestri, 1910
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Prosopodesmus is a genus of flat-backed millipedes in the family Haplodesmidae.[1] These millipedes are found primarily in Australia and southern Japan.[2] This genus includes the species P. panporus, which is notable for exhibiting sexual dimorphism in segment number: Whereas adult females of this species feature the usual 20 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last) usually observed in the order Polydesmida, the adult males of this species feature only 19 segments.[3]
- ^ "MilliBase - Prosopodesmus Silvestri, 1910". www.millibase.org. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
- ^ 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 [402]. doi:10.1163/9789004188273_017. ISBN 9789004188273.
- ^ 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 [147–148]. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1993.tb00305.x.