Pauropoda

Pauropoda; Temporal range: Eocene to Present
	A eurypauropod from New Zealand
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Pauropoda
Orders
	Hexamerocerata; Tetramerocerata;
Synonyms
	Heterognathes de Saussure & Humbert, 1872 ; Heterognatha Tömösváry, 1883 ; Monopoda Bollman, 1893;

Pauropoda is a class of small, pale, millipede-like arthropods in the subphylum Myriapoda. More than 900 species in twelve families^[2]^[3]^[4] are found worldwide, living in soil and leaf mold. Pauropods look like centipedes or millipedes and may be a sister group of the latter,^[5] but a close relationship with Symphyla has also been posited.^[6]^[2] The name Pauropoda derives from the Greek pauros (meaning small or few) and pous or podus (meaning foot), because most species in this class have only nine pairs of legs as adults, a smaller number than those found among adults in any other class of myriapods.^[7]^[8]^[9]

^ Scheller, Ulf (2008). "A reclassification of the Pauropoda (Myriapoda)". International Journal of Myriapodology. 1 (1): 1–38. doi:10.1163/187525408X316730.
^ ^a ^b "Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
^ Minelli, Alessandro (2011). "Class Chilopoda, Class Symphyla and Class Pauropoda. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 157–158. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.31.
^ "ITIS - Report: Pauropoda". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
^ Cedric Gillott (2005). Entomology (3rd ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-1-4020-3182-3.
^ Wang, Jiajia; Bai, Yu; Zhao, Haifeng; Mu, Ruinan; Dong, Yan (23 December 2021). "Reinvestigating the phylogeny of Myriapoda with more extensive taxon sampling and novel genetic perspective". PeerJ. 9: e12691. doi:10.7717/peerj.12691. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8710254. PMID 35036164. S2CID 245468355.
^ "Class Pauropoda | Terrestrial Mandibulates | The Diversity of Animal Life". biocyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Snodgrass, R. E. (1952). Textbook of Arthropod Anatomy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. p. 250. ISBN 978-1-5017-4080-0. OCLC 1102791607.

[Scheller_2008-1] Scheller, Ulf (2008). "A reclassification of the Pauropoda (Myriapoda)". International Journal of Myriapodology. 1 (1): 1–38. doi:10.1163/187525408X316730.

[:2-2] "Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 2022-08-17.

[3] Minelli, Alessandro (2011). "Class Chilopoda, Class Symphyla and Class Pauropoda. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 157–158. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.31.

[:0-4] "ITIS - Report: Pauropoda". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2024-02-28.

[Gillott2005-5] Cedric Gillott (2005). Entomology (3rd ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-1-4020-3182-3.

[6] Wang, Jiajia; Bai, Yu; Zhao, Haifeng; Mu, Ruinan; Dong, Yan (23 December 2021). "Reinvestigating the phylogeny of Myriapoda with more extensive taxon sampling and novel genetic perspective". PeerJ. 9: e12691. doi:10.7717/peerj.12691. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8710254. PMID 35036164. S2CID 245468355.

[7] "Class Pauropoda | Terrestrial Mandibulates | The Diversity of Animal Life". biocyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2024-02-28.

[:1-8] Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[:9-9] Snodgrass, R. E. (1952). Textbook of Arthropod Anatomy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. p. 250. ISBN 978-1-5017-4080-0. OCLC 1102791607.

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