Flat Backed Millipedes

Polydesmida

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Polydesmida (Flat Backed Millipedes) is an order of millipedes. There are 6462 species of Flat Backed Millipedes, in 1341 genera and 29 families. It includes groups like Vaalogonopodidae, Dalodesmidae, and Paradoxosomatidae.

EOL has data for 2 attributes, including:

Body symmetry
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
- Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry
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bilaterally symmetric
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
- Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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cellularity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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multicellular
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
- Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Flat-backed Millipedes. View this species on GBIF

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Flat-backed Millipedes includes 15 children: