Plutoniumidae

{{Short description|Family of centipedes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Plutonium zwierleini - Prasiano - Gaspare Adinolfi.jpg

|image_caption = Plutonium zwierleini

|taxon = Plutoniumidae

|authority = Bollman, 1893

}}

Plutoniumidae is a family of centipedes belonging to the order Scolopendromorpha.{{cite web |title=IRMNG - Plutoniumidae Bollman, 1893 |url=https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=11914374 |website=www.irmng.org |access-date=30 June 2021}} Centipedes in this family are blind and have 21 pairs of legs.{{Cite journal |last=Vahtera |first=Varpu |last2=Edgecombe |first2=Gregory D. |last3=Giribet |first3=Gonzalo |date=2012 |title=Evolution of blindness in scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha): insight from an expanded sampling of molecular data |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00361.x |journal=Cladistics |language=en |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=4–20 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00361.x|doi-access=free }}

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Category:Scolopendromorpha

Category:Centipede families