Siphonophorida Newport, 1844

Wesener, Thomas & Moritz, Leif, 2018, Checklist of the Myriapoda in Cretaceous Burmese amber and a correction of the Myriapoda identified by Zhang (2017), Check List 14 (6), pp. 1131-1140 : 1134

Order Siphonophorida Newport, 1844

Family undetermined (25)

New records. 1 F, BuB823; 1 M, BuB977; 1?, BuB982; 1 M, BuB905; 1 F, BuB1835; 1 F, BuB1951; 1 M, BuB1959; 1?; Bub1966b; 1?, BuB1970; 1 F, BuB1971; 1 F, BuB1977; 1 F, BuB1978; 1 F, BuB1980, 1 M, BuB1981; 1 M, BuB1991; 1?, BuB2605; 1?, BuB2973; 1 F, BuB3019; 1 M, BuB3035; 1 M, BuB3036; 1?, BuB3037; 1?, BuB343; 1 F, BuB3045; 1 F, BuB3054; 1?, BuB3057.

Figure 1C

Identification. Members of the order Siphonophorida can be easily identified based on the beak-like projection of the head, the absence of eyes, as well as the absence of a dorsal suture ( Enghoff et al. 2015). The trunk is usually very slender with a length/width ratio of 1/10 or more.