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(of Craspedosoma polydesmoides Leach, 1816) Leach, W.E. (1816 [1815]). A tabular View of the external Characters of Four Classes of Animals, which Linné arranged under Insecta, with the Distribution of the Genera comprising Three of these Classes into Orders &c. and Descriptions of several New Genera and Species. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 11(2): 306-400., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/756873
page(s): 380 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Scotland, United Kingdom

type locality contained in Scotland [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
type locality contained in United Kingdom [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Nanogona polydesmoides (Leach, 1816). Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=944803 on 2025-05-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-01-23 07:41:39Z

created

Sierwald, Petra

2017-01-23 14:56:15Z

changed

Sierwald, Petra

2023-09-08 11:50:46Z

changed

Decker, Peter

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original description (of Atractosoma latzeli Verhoeff, 1891) Verhoeff, K. W. (1891). Ein Beitrag zur mitteleuropäischen Diplopodenfauna. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 36(1): 115-166. Berlin
page(s): 127 [details]

original description (of Craspedosoma polydesmoides Leach, 1816) Leach, W.E. (1816 [1815]). A tabular View of the external Characters of Four Classes of Animals, which Linné arranged under Insecta, with the Distribution of the Genera comprising Three of these Classes into Orders &c. and Descriptions of several New Genera and Species. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 11(2): 306-400., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/756873
page(s): 380 [details]

original description (of Atractosoma latzeli gallicum Verhoeff, 1895) Verhoeff, K. W. (1895). Aphorismen zur Biologie, Morphologie, Gattungs- und Art-Systematik der Diplopoden. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 18(476-478): 203-244. Jena, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9728546
page(s): 220-221 [details]

additional source Kime, R. D.; Enghoff, H. (2021). Atlas of European millipedes 3: Order Chordeumatida (Class Diplopoda). European Journal of Taxonomy. 769: 1-244., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.769.1497
page(s): 83, Fig. 1A [details]

source of synonymy Foddai, D.; Minelli, A.; Scheller, U.; Zapparoli, M. (1995). Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, Symphyla. In: Minelli, A.; Ruffo, S.; La Posta, S. [Ed.], Checklist delle Specie della Fauna Italiana, 32/33, 1-35. Bologna
page(s): 18 [details]

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Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

Validity The genus name Nanogona Cook was proposed in 1895, with Craspedosoma polydesmoides Leach 1814 as its type species. Polymicrodon Verhoeff was proposed in 1897, with Atractosoma latzeli Verhoeff 1891 as its type species.
The argument for synonymy rests on Brolemann’s 1935 statement that C. polydesmoides is a senior subjective synonym of A. latzeli. According to Jeekel’s 1970 Nomenclator, that statement is incorrect. Therefore the species polydesmoides Leach 1814 should be in the genus Nanogona, and Polymicrodon Verhoeff 1897 is not a synonym of Nanogona Cook 1895, but—again according to Jeekel—Polymicrodon is a junior synonym of Grypogona Cook 1895, since both were based on the same type species. That’s how it stands at present.
The species polydesmoides and latzeli should, however, be checked to finally resolve the question [details]

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