title: Xystocheir
text: # Xystocheir
  
  Xystocheir is a genus of millipedes in the family Xystodesmidae. The genus is endemic to California in the United States, where it is distributed in the Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada.
  
  Since a 1996 revision there have been 9 species classified in the genus:
  
  * Xystocheir bistipita
  * Xystocheir brachymacris
  * Xystocheir dissecta
  * Xystocheir modestior
  * Xystocheir prolixorama
  * Xystocheir reducta
  * Xystocheir solenofurcata
  * Xystocheir stenomacris
  * Xystocheir stolonifera
  