original description
Silvestri, F. (1903) Fauna Napoletana. Myriapodi viventi sulla spiaggia del mare presso Portici (Napoli). Annu.Mus.Zool.Univ.Napoli (NS) 19(12):1-5 [details]
additional source
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source
Barber, A. D. (2009). Littoral myriapods. a review. <em>Soil Organisms.</em> 81(3): 735-760. [details] Available for editors
additional source
Roth, V.D. & Brown, W.L. (1976) Other air-breathing arthropods in Cheng, L. Marine Insects. North-Holland Publishing, Amsterdam-Oxford, American Elsevier, New York. [details]
From editor or global species database
Identification All post-Silvestri records in Mediterranean now shown to be P. macedonicus (R.D.Kime pers. comm.) [details]From other sources
Habitat in rocky littoral [details]