Atlas of myriapod biogeography. I. Indigenous ordinal and supra-ordinal distributions in the Diplopoda: Perspectives on taxon origins and ages, and a hypothesis on the origin and early evolution of the class

• Main Authors: Shelley, Rowland M., Golovatch, Sergei I.
• Other Authors: Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc.
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: ddc:590; Arctic; Argentina; Campbell Island; Canada; Hudson; Hudson Bay; New Zealand; Antarc*; Antarctica; Iceland; Siberia
• Online Access: http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/19725; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-100091; http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/19725/fulltext.pdf

The biogeographic significance of Diplopoda is substantiated by 50 maps documenting indigenous occurrences of the 16 orders, the three Spirostreptida s. l. suborders – Cambalidea, Epinannolenidea, Spirostreptidea – and all higher taxa including Diplopoda itself. The class is indigenous to all contin...