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2011

Insecta Mundi

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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, Rowland M. Shelley, Sergei I. Golavatch Mar 2011

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, Rowland M. Shelley, Sergei I. Golavatch

Insecta Mundi

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 continents except Antarctica and islands/archipelagos in all temperate and tropical seas and oceans except the Arctic; it ranges from Kodiak Island and the northern Alaskan Panhandle, United States (USA), southern Hudson Bay, Canada, and near or north of the Arctic Circle in Iceland, continental Scandinavia, and Siberia to southern “mainland” Argentina, the southern tips of Africa and Tasmania, and …