Millotauropus

Millotauropus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Myriapoda
Class:
Pauropoda
Order:
Hexamerocerata

Remy, 1950
Family:
Millotauropodidae

Remy, 1950
Genus:
Millotauropus

Remy, 1950
Synonyms
  • Rosettauropus Hűther 1968

Millotauropus is a genus of pauropods in the monotypic family Millotauropodidae in the monotypic order Hexamerocerata.[1][2] The order Hexamerocerata includes only eight species and was created in 1950 to contain the newly discovered genus Millotauropus, which was found to have so many distinctive features as to warrant placement in a separate order.[3][1] Before the discovery of Millotauropus, for example, pauropods were thought to have no more than ten leg pairs, but adults in the order Hexamerocerata have eleven pairs of legs.[2]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Scheller 2008 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Scheller, Ulf (2011). "Pauropoda". In Minelli, Alessandro (ed.). Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda. Vol. 1. Brill. p. 498. ISBN 978-90-04-15611-1.
  3. ^ Remy, Paul (1950). "Les <i>Millotauropus</i>, types d'un nouveau groupe de Pauropodes". Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des sciences (in French). 230 (1): 472–474. ISSN 0001-4036.