Choctella is a genus of millipedes in the monotypic family Choctellidae. Its two species are native to the south-eastern United States. C. cumminsi Chamberlin, 1918, occurs on the Cumberland Plateau from central Tennessee to northern Alabama and C. hubrichti Hoffman, 1965, occurs in central Alabama.[1][2]

Choctella
Choctella cumminsi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Spirostreptida
Family: Choctellidae
Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1950
Genus: Choctella
Chamberlin, 1918

References edit

  1. ^ Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History. ISBN 9781884549120.
  2. ^ Shear, W. (2011). "Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 159–164. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.32.