Siphonorhinidae Cook, 1895

Moritz, Leif, Wipfler, Benjamin & Wesener, Thomas, 2025, Protosiphonorhinus patrickmuelleri gen. et sp. nov., the first fossil member of the sucking millipede family Siphonorhinidae (Colobognatha, Siphonophorida) described from Cretaceous Myanmar amber, Evolutionary Systematics 9 (1), pp. 77-86 : 77-86

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.9.147291

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7BADD00C-9649-4B92-8172-8B04FD873385

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15040815

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F69D6FB1-A1B3-5ADD-957B-3EBE939F952C

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scientific name

Siphonorhinidae Cook, 1895
status

 

Family Siphonorhinidae Cook, 1895 View in CoL

Type genus.

Siphonorhinus Pocock, 1894 . Eight species.

Placement of the new species in the family.

The new species of the new genus is placed in the family Siphonorhinidae based on the following characters: the head being pear-shaped, neither elongate nor with a long beak (like in members of the Siphonophoridae ) (Figs 2 C View Figure 2 , 3 A – C View Figure 3 ); antennomere 2 slender, longer than wide (usually wider than long in Siphonophoridae ); antennae elbowed between antennomeres 3 and 4 (antennae straight in Siphonophoridae ); anterior margin of collum straight (emarginate in Siphonophoridae ) (Figs 2 C View Figure 2 , 3 B, C View Figure 3 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

SubClass

Helminthomorpha

Order

Siphonophorida

Family

Siphonorhinidae