Family SIPHONOTIDAE Cook, 1895

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Introduction

Siphonotidae currently contains 11 genera in two subfamilies and appears to be restricted to the Southern Hemisphere (Hoffman 1977, 1980). Although only five species are listed here, more than 90 undescribed Australian species have been recognised by Dennis Black (La Trobe University) from all parts of Australia except the Northern Territory (Black 1997; D.G. Black, pers. comm.). Among the undescribed forms are aquatic species, including one first discovered on the campus of Macquarie University in Sydney (Burrows et al. 1994). The distributions of three undescribed Tasmanian siphonotids have been published by Mesibov (1999).

General References

Black, D.G. 1997. Diversity and biogeography of Australian millipedes (Diplopoda). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 56(2): 557-561

Burrows, F.J., Hales, D.F. & Beattie, A.J. 1994. Aquatic millipedes in Australia: a biological enigma and a conservation saga. The Australian Zoologist 29(3/4): 213-216

Hoffman, R.L. 1977. On the status of Siphonotus brasiliensis Brandt, and of the diplopod family Siphonotidae (Polyzoniida) (Diplopoda). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift ns 24: 425-431

Hoffman, R.L. 1980. Classification of the Diplopoda. Geneva : Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève 238 pp.

Mesibov, R. 1999. The Mersey Break: an unexplained faunal boundary on the north coast of Tasmania. pp. 246-252 in Ponder, W.F. & Lunney, D. (eds). The Other 99%. The Conservation and Biodiversity of Invertebrates. Mosman (NSW) : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 454 pp.

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