Abstract
The taxonomic parts of the privately maintained Millipedes of Australia website (2006-2019), now offline, have been archived in Zenodo and are no longer being updated. Core taxonomic information about the Australian millipede fauna is now available on MilliBase, a global taxonomic resource for millipedes. Most of the locality records for named, native Australian millipedes formerly available as downloads on the Millipedes of Australia website are now accessible through the Atlas of Living Australia and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Highlights
The Millipedes of Australia website ( MoA) was built as an alternative to the online Diplopoda checklist in the Australian Faunal Directory (AFD; https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/ home)
I compiled the first version of the AFD millipede list in 2002, but as a millipede taxonomist in the early 2000s I wanted a single source for more detailed taxonomic information on the Australian fauna and for detailed species locality information
In 2012 the interactive map was replaced by downloadable CSV and KML files, grouped by genus
Summary
The Millipedes of Australia website ( MoA) was built as an alternative to the online Diplopoda checklist in the Australian Faunal Directory (AFD; https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/ home). In 2015 I added an illustrated key to the millipede orders known in Australia (native and introduced), and in 2016 I added links on the MoA bibliography page to non-paywalled, online versions of cited literature. On 17 May 2019 I removed MoA from "polydesmida.info" and archived the website in Zenodo as a freely available resource, no longer updated.
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