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Traits taxon detailsOrthoporus ornatus (Girard, 1853)
947421 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:947421)
accepted
Species
(of ) Girard, C. (1869). Myriapods. <em>In: Marcy, Randolph Barnes: Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852, by Randolph B. Marcy, assisted by George B. McClellan.</em> 243-246.
page(s): 274 [details]
Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Orthoporus ornatus (Girard, 1853). Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=947421 on 2026-09-07
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Orthoporus ornatus (Girard, 1853). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=947421 on 2026-09-07
original description
(of ) Girard, C. (1869). Myriapods. <em>In: Marcy, Randolph Barnes: Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852, by Randolph B. Marcy, assisted by George B. McClellan.</em> 243-246.
page(s): 274 [details] additional source Causey, N. B. (1967). The neotype of the spirostreptid millipede Julus ornatus. <em>The proceedings of the Louisiana Academy of Sciences.</em> 30: 91. page(s): 91 [details] additional source Causey, N. B. (1975). Desert millipedes (Spirostreptidae, Spirostreptida) of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico. <em>Occasional papers (The Museum Texas Tech University).</em> 35: 1-12., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.142815 page(s): 5-7, figs. 2a, b [details] additional source Chamberlin, R. V.; Hoffman, R. L. (1958). Checklist of the millipeds of North America. United States National Museum Bulletin, 212: 1-236. Washington D. C., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7818794 page(s): 170-171 [details] additional source Crawford, C. S. (1972). Water relations in a desert millipede Orthoporus ornatus (Girard) (Spirostreptidae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A, 42(2): 521-535, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0300-9629(72)90131-4 [details] additional source Crawford, C. S. (1979). A year in the life of Orthoporus ornatus, a desert millipede. In: Linn, R.M. [Ed.]. Proceedings of the first conference on scientific research in the National Parks, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 9-12, 1976. Volume 1. National Park Service [details] additional source Crawford, C. S. (1979). Desert millipedes a rationale for their distribution. In: Camatini, M. (ed.): Myriapod biology, 171-181. London, New York [details] additional source Crawford, C. S.; Bercovitz, K.; Warburg, M. R. (1987). Regional environments, life-history patterns, and habitat use of spirostreptid millipedes in arid regions. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 89(1): 63-88, available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1987.tb01344.x [details] additional source Crawford, C. S.; Matlack, M. C. (1979). Water relations of desert millipede larvae, larva-containing pellets and surrounding soil. Pedobiologia, 19(1): 48-55, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0031-4056(23)02209-6 [details] additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1999). Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication.</em> 8: 1-584., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63590410 page(s): 127 [details] additional source Horst, D. H. van der; Oudejans, R. C. H. M. (1973). Cyclopropane fatty acids in the millipede Orthoporus ornatus (Girard) (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Spirostreptidae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part B Comparative Biochemistry, 46(2): 277-281, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-0491(73)90319-2 [details] additional source Krabbe, E. (1982). Systematik der Spirostreptidae (Diplopoda, Spirostreptomorpha). Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (N.F.), 24: 1-476. Hamburg page(s): 10, 76, 78-81, 83-86, 350-352, 367 [details] additional source Loomis, H. F. (1963). Millipeds from states immediately north and south of the Mexican boundary. <em>Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society.</em> 36: 118-126. page(s): 125-126 [details] additional source Loomis, H. F. (1966). Descriptions and records of Mexican Diplopoda. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 59: 11-27 page(s): 25-27, figs. 50-55 [details] additional source Loomis, H. F. (1966). Millipeds from the region of Monterrey, Mexico. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 39: 513-524 page(s): 523 [details] additional source Loomis, H. F. (1968). A checklist of the millipeds of Mexico and Central America. <em>United States National Museum Bulletin.</em> 266: 1-137. Washington., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7893582 page(s): 102 [details] Available for editors  additional source Minelli, A. (2015). Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2. <em>Brill, Leiden; Boston.</em> 482 pp. page(s): 438 [details] additional source Moffett, D. F. (1975). Sodium and potassium transport across the isolated hindgut of the desert millipede, Orthoporus ornatus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 50 A: 57-63, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0010-406x(75)80202-7 page(s): 57-63 [details] additional source Nunez, F. S.; Crawford, Clifford S. (1976). Digestive enzymes of the desert millipede Orthoporus ornatus (Diplopoda Spirostreptidae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A, 55(2): 141-145, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0300-9629(76)90082-7 [details] additional source Nunez, F. S.; Crawford, Clifford S. (1977). Anatomy and histology of the alimentary tract of the desert millipede Ornothoporus ornatus (Diplopoda: Spirostreptidae). Journal of Morphology, 151(1): 121-130, available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.1051510107 [details] additional source Pugach, S.; Crawford, Clifford S. (1978). Seasonal changes in hemolymph amino acids, proteins, and inorganic ions of a desert millipede Orthoporus ornatus (Girard) (Diplopoda: Spirostreptidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 56(6): 1460-1465, available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z78-201 [details] additional source Taylor, E. C. (1982). Fungal preference by a desert millipede, Orthoporus ornatus ( Spirostreptidae). Pedobiologia, 23(5): 331-336, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0031-4056(23)03646-6 [details] additional source Taylor, E. C. (1982). Role of aerobic microbial populations in cellulose digestion by desert millipedes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 44(2): 281-291, available online at https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.44.2.281-291.1982 [details] additional source Upton, S. J.; Crawford, C. S.; Hoffman, R. L. (1983). A new species of thelastomatid (Nematoda: Thelastomatidae) from the desert millipede, Orthoporus ornatus (Diplopoda: Spirostreptidae). Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 50(1): 69-82 [details] additional source Walker, L. J.; Crawford, Clifford S. (1980). Integumental ultrastructure of the desert millipede, Orthoporus ornatus (Girard) (Diplopoda: Spirostreptidae). International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology, 9(3): 231-249, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-7322(80)90017-3 [details] additional source Wooten, R. C. Jr.; Crawford, C. S.; Riddle, W. A. (1975). Behavioural thermoregulation of Orthopoms ornatus (Diplopoda: Spirostreptidae) in three desert habitats. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 57(1): 59-74, available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1975.tb01890.x [details] additional source Wooten, R. C.; Crawford, C. S. (1975). Food, ingestion rates, and assimilation in the desert millipede Orthoporus ornatus (Girard)(Diplopoda). Oecologia, 20: 231-236. Berlin, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00347475 [details] new combination reference Causey, N. B. (1954). Three new species and new records of southern millipeds. Tulane studies in zoology, 2(4): 63-68. New Orleans page(s): 67, fig. 10; note: Orthoporus ornatus [details] |
