Choctella

Choctella is a genus of millipedes comprising the family Choctellidae, native to the southeastern United States. There are at least two described species: C. cumminsi Chamberlin, 1918, occurring on the Cumberland Plateau from central Tennessee to northern Alabama and C. hubrichti Hoffman, 1965, occurring in central Alabama.[1][2]

Choctella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Spirostreptida
Family: Choctellidae
Genus: Choctella
Chamberlin, 1918

References

  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.


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