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Furcillaria

genus of myriapods

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ6448772 ↗
Source-derived summary

Furcillaria is listed a genus of flat-backed millipedes in the family Xystodesmidae by several references. In 2021, however, authorities deemed Furcillaria to be a junior synonym of Sigmoria. Accordingly, other references reject Furcillaria as a valid genus.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Furcillaria” as genus of myriapods. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Furcillaria, genus and myriapods can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as genus of myriapods. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6448772. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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Scientific names, classifications and consensus can change while older terminology persists in catalogues and historical literature. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Furcillaria” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.