Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Myriapoda > Class Diplopoda > Subclass Penicillata > Order Polyxenida > Family Polyxenidae > Genus Polyxenus

Polyxenus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Scolopendra Slabber, 1781

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Polyxenus*	Latreille, 1802/1803	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Scolopendra lagurus*	Linnaeus, 1758	objective synonym
*Polyxenus germanicus*	Verhoeff, 1941	subjective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bokmål (Norwegian): børstetusenbein sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: penseeltje sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: bristly millipede

English-United States: Bristly Millipede sources: Charles Hussey

Norwegian Nynorsk: børstetusenbein sources: Andersson et.al. (2005)

Nynorsk (Norwegian): børstetusenbein sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: penselfoting

Literature

basis of record	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
additional source	Blower, J.G. (1985) Millipedes. Linnean Society Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) 35. E.J.Brill/Dr W.Backhuys, London, Leiden, Koln, Kobenhavn.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (9 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (180 publications)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Barber, A.D. (2014). Polyxenus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Barber, A.D. (2014) World database of littoral Myriapoda. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151192

& Desmond Kime, Richard Enghoff, Henrik. Polyxenus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=326422