Tetramerocerata

Tetramerocerata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Pauropoda
Order: Tetramerocerata
Remy, 1950

Tetramerocerata is an order of pauropods containing 11 families and more than 900 species.[1] This order was created in 1950 to distinguish these pauropods from those in the newly discovered genus Millotauropus, which was found to have such distinctive features as to warrant placement in a separate order (Hexamerocerata) created to contain that genus.[2] The order Tetramerocerata includes the vast majority of pauropod species, as there are only eight species in the order Hexamerocerata, which remains the only other order in the class Pauropoda.[3]

  1. ^ "ITIS - Report: Tetramerocerata". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
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  3. ^ "ITIS - Report: Hexamerocerata". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2024-02-27.