''Phryssonotus'' is a genus of
bristle millipede
Polyxenida is an Order (biology), order of millipedes readily distinguished by a unique body plan consisting of a soft, non-calcified body ornamented with tufts of bristles. These features have inspired the common names bristly millipedes or p ...
s containing around nine extant species. Species are characterized by the possession of dark, rear-projecting scale-shaped bristles (trichomes) on the
tergite
A ''tergum'' (Latin for "the back"; : ''terga'', associated adjective tergal) is the Anatomical terms of location#Dorsal and ventral, dorsal ('upper') portion of an arthropod segment other than the head. The Anatomical terms of location#Anterior ...
s; all other bristles are long and hairlike.
Adults in this genus have 17 pairs of legs, except for the species ''Phryssonotus brevicapensis'', in which they have only 15 pairs of legs.
Species
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Phryssonotus brevicapensis
''Phryssonotus'' is a genus of bristle millipedes containing around nine extant species. Species are characterized by the possession of dark, rear-projecting scale-shaped bristles (trichomes) on the tergites; all other bristles are long and hairl ...
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Phryssonotus burmiticus''
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Phryssonotus capensis
''Phryssonotus'' is a genus of bristle millipedes containing around nine extant species. Species are characterized by the possession of dark, rear-projecting scale-shaped bristles (trichomes) on the tergites; all other bristles are long and hairl ...
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Phryssonotus chilensis''
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Phryssonotus cubanus''
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Phryssonotus hystrix''
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Phryssonotus novaehollandiae''
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Phryssonotus orientalis
''Phryssonotus'' is a genus of bristle millipedes containing around nine extant species. Species are characterized by the possession of dark, rear-projecting scale-shaped bristles (trichomes) on the tergites; all other bristles are long and hairl ...
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Phryssonotus platycephalus''
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Phryssonotus burmiticus''
Cockerell
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People
* Allan Cockerell (1891–1975), New Zealand soldier and politician
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1917 Burmese amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. Th ...
, Myanmar,
Cenomanian
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Phryssonotus hystrix''
Menge 1854 Baltic amber
Baltic amber or succinite is amber from the Baltic region, home of its largest known deposits. It was produced sometime during the Eocene epoch, but exactly when is controversial. It has been estimated that this forested region provided the re ...
, Eocene
References
Polyxenida
Millipede genera
Taxa named by Samuel Hubbard Scudder
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