Chordeumatida

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Classis: Diplopoda
Subclassis: Chilognatha
Infraclassis: Helminthomorpha
Superordo: Coelocheta
Ordo: Chordeumatida
Superfamiliae: Neoatractosomatoidea – Striarioidea ...
Overview of familiae

Adritylidae – Anthogonidae – Anthroleucosomatidae – Apterouridae – Attemsiidae – Biokoviellidae – Branneriidae – Buotidae – Caseyidae – Chamaesomatidae – Chordeumatidae – Cleidogonidae – Conotylidae – Craspedosomatidae – Dalmatosomatidae – Diplomaragnidae – Entomobielziidae – Eudigonidae – Faginidae – Ghilaroviidae – Golovatchiidae – Guizhousomatidae – Haaseidae – Haplobainosomatidae – Heterochordeumatidae – Heterolatzeliidae – Hoffmaneumatidae – Kashmireumasomatidae – Lankasomatidae – Lusitaniosomatidae – Mastigophorophyllidae – Megalotylidae – Metopidiotrichidae – Microlympiidae – Neoatractosomatidae – Niponiosomatidae – Opisthocheiridae – Origmatogonidae – Peterjohnsiidae – Pygmaeosomatidae – Rhiscosomididae – Sakhalineumatidae – Speophilosomatidae – Striariidae – Tingupidae – Trachygonidae – Trichopetalidae – Urochordeumatidae – Vandeleumatidae – Verhoeffiidae – Vieteumatidae
Genera Incertae sedis

Antroremya - Apodigona - Brachytropisoma - Epirosomella - Euzonus - Marboreuma - Pseudocraspedosoma

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Name

Chordeumatida Pocock, 1894
References

Pocock, R.I. 1894. Contributions to our knowledge of the arthropod fauna of the West Indies 11. Malacopoda or Protracheata. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 24: 473–544. BHL Reference page.
Antić, D.Ž., Raða, T. & Makarov, S.E. 2018. Dalmatosomatidae, a new monotypic family, and Dalmatosoma agaricum gen. et sp. nov. (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Craspedosomatidea) from Croatia, Balkan Peninsula. Zootaxa 4403(2): 289–306. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.2.4 Reference page.
Mikhaljova, E.V. et al. 2013: The millipede order Chordeumatida (Diplopoda) in Kazakhstan, with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 3635(5): 533–544. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3635.5.3 Reference page.
Shear, W.A. 2000: On the milliped family Heterochordeumatidae, with comments on the higher classification of the order Chordeumatida (Diplopoda). Invertebrate taxonomy, 14: 363–376. DOI: 10.1071/IT99016
Shear, W.A. 2009: Buotidae, a new family for the minute North American milliped Buotus carolinus (Chamberlin) 1940 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea). Zootaxa, 2290: 41–49. Abstract & excerpt PDF
Shear, W (2011). Zhang, Z.-Q., ed. Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844. In: Animal biodiversity : an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa. pp. 159-164. ISBN 978-1-86977-850-7
Chordeumatida (from the Greek word for "sausage") is a large order of millipedes containing some 1200 species with a nearly worldwide distribution. Also known as sausage millipedes,[1] they grow and develop through a series of moults, adding segments until they reach a fixed number in the adult stage, which is usually the same for a given sex in a given species, at which point the moulting and the addition of segments and legs stop.[2] This mode of development, known as teloanamorphosis, distinguishes this order from most other orders of millipedes, which usually continue to moult as adults, developing through either euanamorphosis or hemianamorphosis.[2][3]
Description

Chordeumatidans are relatively short-bodied, with only 26 to 32 body segments (including the telson) behind the head. They range in length from 4–25 mm (0.16–0.98 in). A key feature is the presence of 6 large bristles (setae) on the dorsal surface of each body segment. The first segment (collum) is relatively narrow, giving the appearance of a distinct "neck" in many species. The body tapers towards the rear, and the rearmost tip (telson) contains silk-producing organs (spinnerets). A dorsal groove runs down the length of the body, and some species possess paranota, lateral extensions of the exoskeleton. Paranota are also found in some other millipedes, notably Polydesmida, from which Chordeumatidans can be distinguished by having a dorsal groove. Unlike most other helminthomorph (worm-like) millipedes, chordeumatidans lack ozopores.[4][5]

Most chordeumatidan species have 30 body segments (including the telson) as adults, and adult females in these species have 50 leg pairs.[2][6] In adult males in this order, two leg pairs (pair 8 and pair 9) are modified into gonopods, leaving 48 pair of walking legs in the typical adult male chordeumatidan.[7][2] Many species in this order, however, deviate from this typical body plan.

Many chordeumatidan species deviate from the usual 30 segments: A few species have 26 segments as adults (e.g., Chamaesoma broelemanni and Opisthocheiron canayerensis), many species have 28 (e.g., Lipseuma josianae[8]), one genus features 29 (Tianella, in which all but two species have 29[9]), one species (Metamastigophorophyllon martensi) features 31, and many species have 32 (e.g., Altajosoma kemerovo[10]).[2] Some species also deviate by featuring sexual dimorphism in segment number, specifically, adult males with two segments fewer than adult females, for example, in the family Buotidae (males with 26, females with 28),[11] in Xystrosoma beatense (males with 28, females with the usual 30),[2] and in the family Peterjohnsiidae (males with the usual 30, females with 32).[12]

With these deviations from the usual 30 segments, the number of leg pairs in adults changes, usually with two leg pairs added or subtracted for each segment added to or subtracted from the typical number.[6] For example, in Chamaesoma broelemanni, with only 26 segments (four fewer than the typical number), adult females have only 42 leg pairs, and adult males have only 40 pairs of walking legs (excluding two pairs of gonopods).[13][2] Adult females with 32 segments (two more than the typical number) have 54 leg pairs (e.g., in the family Peterjohnsiidae[12]), which is the maximum number fixed by species in the class Diplopoda.[14]

Many species deviate from the expected number of walking legs, however, because they deviate in terms of sex-linked modifications to their legs. For example, many species involve another leg pair in addition to pairs 8 and 9 in the gonopod complex in adult males. In the family Speophilosomatidae, leg pair 7 in adult males is modified as part of the gonopod complex.[15] In many species, the gonopod complex instead includes leg pair 10 in addition to pairs 8 and 9 (e.g., Branneria carinata,[16] Reginaterreuma monroei,[12] Golovatchia magda, and Hoffmaneuma exiguum[17]). The family Chordeumatidae exhibits the most extensive modifications, including five leg pairs (pairs 7 through 11) in the gonopod complex.[7][2] Some species also deviate from the usual body plan by reducing or eliminating leg pairs in the adult female. In the family Chordeumatidae, for example, adult females feature a legless sternite (the "platosternite") where a third pair of legs would otherwise be.[7][2][6] In other species (e.g., the genus Kashmireuma and the species Vieteuma longi), adult females instead exhibit modifications to their second leg pair, which are reduced to small nubbins.[18]
Distribution

Chordeumatidans have a large distribution, occurring on all continents except Antarctica. They are present in Madagascar but absent from sub-Saharan Africa and, aside from southern Chile, are largely absent from South America. They occur in the tropics of Central America, Southeast Asia, and Oceania, and as far south as Tasmania, New Zealand, and Chiloé Island, Chile.[19] They are abundant in cold, rocky, mountainous areas of Europe and central Asia, and range northward to Scandinavia, Siberia, and in North America up into Canada and southwest Alaska.[19]
Classification

Chordeumatida contains approximately 1200 species,[20][21] classified in four suborders and approximately 50 families, although several families contain only one to five genera.[22]

Suborder Chordeumatidea Pocock 1894

Superfamily Chordeumatoidea C. L. Koch, 1847
Chordeumatidae C. L. Koch, 1847
Speophilosomatidae Takakuwa, 1949

Suborder Craspedosomatidea Cook, 1895

Superfamily Anthroleucosomatoidea Verhoeff 1899
Anthroleucosomatidae Verhoeff 1899
Haasiidae Hoffman, 1980
Origmatogonidae Verhoeff 1914
Vandeleumatidae Mauriès, 1970
Superfamily Brannerioidea Cook, 1896
Brachychaeteumatidae Verhoeff, 1910
Branneriidae Cook, 1896
Chaemosomatidae Verhoeff, 1913
Atractosoma (Craspedosomatidae) from Germany
Craspedosoma (Craspedosomatidae) from Belgium
Golovatchiidae Shear, 1992
Heterolatzeliidae Verhoeff 1899
Kashmireumatidae Mauriès, 1982
Macrochaeteumatidae Verhoeff, 1914
Microlympiidae Shear & Leonard, 2003
Niponiosomatidae Verhoeff, 1941
Tingupidae Loomis, 1966
Trachygonidae Cook, 1896
Superfamily Cleidogonoidea Cook, 1896
Biokoviellidae Mrsic, 1992
Cleidogonidae Cook, 1896
Entomobielziidae Verhoeff, 1899
Lusitaniosomatidae Schubart, 1953
Opisthocheiridae Ribaut, 1913
Trichopetalidae Verhoeff, 1914
Superfamily Craspedosomatoidea Gray in Jones, 1843
Attemsiidae Verhoeff, 1899
A pair of Haasea (Haaseidae) from Germany. The dorsal groove is visible
Craspedosomatidae Gray in Jones, 1843
Haplobainosomatidae Verhoeff, 1909
Superfamily Haaseoidea Attems, 1899
Haaseidae Attems, 1899
Superfamily Neoatractosomatoidea Verhoeff, 1901
Altajellidae Mikhaljova & Golovatch, 2001
Cyrnosomatidae Mauriès, 2003
Faginidae Attems, 1926
Hoffmaneumatidae Golovatch, 1978
Mastigophorophyllidae Verhoeff, 1899
Neoactractosomatidae Verhoeff, 1901
Superfamily Verhoeffioidea Verhoeff, 1899
Verhoeffiidae Verhoeff, 1899

Suborder Heterochordeumatidea Shear, 2000

Superfamily Conotyloidea Cook, 1896
Adritylidae Shear, 1971
Conotylidae Cook, 1896
Superfamily Diplomaragnoidea Attems, 1907
Schedotrigona (Metopidiotrichidae) from New Zealand
Diplomaragnidae Attems, 1907
Superfamily Heterochordeumatoidea Pocock, 1894
Eudigonidae Verhoeff, 1914
Heterochordeumatidae Pocock, 1894
Megalotylidae Golovatch, 1978
Metopidiotrichidae Attems, 1907
Peterjohnsiidae Mauriès, 1987
Superfamily Pygmaeosomatoidea Carl, 1941
Lankasomatidae Mauriès 1978
Pygmaeosomatidae Carl, 1941

Suborder Striariidea Cook, 1896

Superfamily Caseyoidea Verhoeff, 1909
Caseyidae Verhoeff, 1909
Urochordeumatidae Silvestri, 1909
Superfamily Striarioidea Bollman, 1893
Apterouridae Loomis, 1966
Buotidae Shear, 2009
Rhiscosomididae Silvestri, 1909
Striariidae Bollman, 1893

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