Trichopetalidae

{{Short description|Family of millipedes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Trichopetalidae

| authority = Verhoeff, 1914

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Trichopetalidae is a family of millipedes in the order Chordeumatida. Adult millipedes in this family have 28 or 30 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last).{{Cite journal |last1=Enghoff |first1=Henrik |last2=Dohle |first2=Wolfgang |last3=Blower |first3=J. Gordon |date=1993 |title=Anamorphosis in Millipedes (Diplopoda) — The Present State of Knowledge with Some Developmental and Phylogenetic Considerations |url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/109/2/103/2646268?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=109 |issue=2 |pages=103–234|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1993.tb00305.x |url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last1=Enghoff |first1=Henrik |last2=Golovatch |first2=Sergei |last3=Short |first3=Megan |last4=Stoev |first4=Pavel |last5=Wesener |first5=Thomas |date=2015-01-01 |title=Diplopoda — taxonomic overview |url=https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004188273/B9789004188273_017.xml |journal=Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2 |language=en |pages=363–453 |doi=10.1163/9789004188273_017|isbn=9789004156128 |url-access=subscription }} There are about 5 genera and at least 30 described species in Trichopetalidae.

{{Cite web| title=Trichopetalidae Family Information

| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/702516

| website=BugGuide.net

| accessdate=2018-02-23

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{{Cite web| title=Trichopetalidae Report

| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=569018

| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System

| accessdate=2018-02-23

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{{Cite web| title=Trichopetalidae Overview

| url=http://eol.org/pages/6442/overview

| website=Encyclopedia of Life

| accessdate=2018-02-23

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{{Cite web| title=Browse Trichopetalidae

| url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/5641ba6bb01674f82a57aaaca2e18227

| website=Catalogue of Life

| accessdate=2018-02-23

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{{Cite web

| accessdate = 2018-02-23

| last1 = Shelley | first1 = R.M.

| title = The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals

| url = https://ag.tennessee.edu/EPP/Pages/Nadiplochilo/Nadiplochilo.aspx

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