Siphonotidae Cook, 1895

Anilkumar, Pooja Avinipully, Wesener, Thomas & Moritz, Leif, 2022, First record of the order Polyzoniida from the Indian subcontinent with an integrative description of a new genus (Diplopoda, Colobognatha, Siphonotidae), Zootaxa 5182 (5), pp. 401-428 : 406

Family Siphonotidae Cook, 1895

Diagnostic remarks. The newly described genus and the three species can be placed in the family Siphonotidae on the basis of the following combination of characters: Male gonopores opening on a conical lobe on the coxae of leg pair 2; narrow, completely fused preanal ring; tarsal claw with paronychium (compare Hoffman 1977; Enghoff et al. 2015; Shear 2016). As discussed by Shear (2016) these characters are unknown or only insufficiently described for most species considered to be Siphonotidae , and therefore it has yet to be proven that these characters are diagnostic for the family.