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Traits taxon details
Rhiscosomididae Silvestri, 1909
888810 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:888810)
accepted
Family
Rhiscosomides Silvestri, 1909 (type by monotypy)
Silvestri, F. (1909). Descrizioni preliminari di varii Artropodi, specialmente d' America. III. Nuovi Chordeumoidea (Diplopoda). Rendiconti, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 5. Ser., 18: 229-233. Roma, available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44698853
page(s): 232 [details]
page(s): 232 [details]
Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Rhiscosomididae Silvestri, 1909. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=888810 on 2025-04-26
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Rhiscosomididae Silvestri, 1909. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=888810 on 2025-04-26
original description
Silvestri, F. (1909). Descrizioni preliminari di varii Artropodi, specialmente d' America. III. Nuovi Chordeumoidea (Diplopoda). Rendiconti, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 5. Ser., 18: 229-233. Roma, available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44698853
page(s): 232 [details]
taxonomy source Minelli, A. (2015). Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2. <em>Brill, Leiden; Boston.</em> 482 pp.
page(s): 451; note: listed as a valid family in Table 16.1 [details]
basis of record Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 135 [details]
additional source Loomis, H. F. (1966). Two new families and other North American Diplopoda of the suborder Chordeumidea. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 79: 221-230. Washington [details]
additional source Shear, W. A. (1973). The milliped family Rhiscosomididae (Diplopoda). Psyche, 80: 189-203. Lexington [details]
additional source Chamberlin, R. V. (1941). New western Millipeds. <em>Bulletin of the University of Utah, Biological Series.</em> 31(12): 1-23. Salt Lake City. [details]
additional source Chamberlin, R. V.; Hoffman, R. L. (1958). Checklist of the millipeds of North America. United States National Museum Bulletin, 212: 1-236. Washington D. C. [details]
additional source Shear, W. A. (2009). Buotidae, a new family for the minute North American milliped <em>Buotus</em> <em>carolinus </em>(Chamberlin) 1940 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2290(1): 41-49., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2290.1.4 [details]
additional source Shelley, Rowland M.; Medrano, Michael F.; Shear, William Albert; Ovaska, Kristiina; White, Ken J.; Havard, Erin I. (2009). Distribution extensions of the milliped families Conotylidae and Rhiscosomididae (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida) into northern coastal British Columbia and Southern Alaska. Insecta Mundi, 0071: 1-6 [details]
additional source Silvestri, F. (1913). Illustrazione di due famiglie di Chordeumoidea (Diplopoda) del Nord America. Bollettino del Laboratorio di zoologia generale e agraria della Facoltà agraria in Portici, 7: 303-310. Portici, available online at https://biodiversitylibrary. org/page/13979142 [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1999). Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication.</em> 8: 1-584., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63590410 [details]
page(s): 232 [details]
taxonomy source Minelli, A. (2015). Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2. <em>Brill, Leiden; Boston.</em> 482 pp.
page(s): 451; note: listed as a valid family in Table 16.1 [details]
basis of record Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 135 [details]
additional source Loomis, H. F. (1966). Two new families and other North American Diplopoda of the suborder Chordeumidea. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 79: 221-230. Washington [details]
additional source Shear, W. A. (1973). The milliped family Rhiscosomididae (Diplopoda). Psyche, 80: 189-203. Lexington [details]
additional source Chamberlin, R. V. (1941). New western Millipeds. <em>Bulletin of the University of Utah, Biological Series.</em> 31(12): 1-23. Salt Lake City. [details]
additional source Chamberlin, R. V.; Hoffman, R. L. (1958). Checklist of the millipeds of North America. United States National Museum Bulletin, 212: 1-236. Washington D. C. [details]
additional source Shear, W. A. (2009). Buotidae, a new family for the minute North American milliped <em>Buotus</em> <em>carolinus </em>(Chamberlin) 1940 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2290(1): 41-49., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2290.1.4 [details]
additional source Shelley, Rowland M.; Medrano, Michael F.; Shear, William Albert; Ovaska, Kristiina; White, Ken J.; Havard, Erin I. (2009). Distribution extensions of the milliped families Conotylidae and Rhiscosomididae (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida) into northern coastal British Columbia and Southern Alaska. Insecta Mundi, 0071: 1-6 [details]
additional source Silvestri, F. (1913). Illustrazione di due famiglie di Chordeumoidea (Diplopoda) del Nord America. Bollettino del Laboratorio di zoologia generale e agraria della Facoltà agraria in Portici, 7: 303-310. Portici, available online at https://biodiversitylibrary. org/page/13979142 [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1999). Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication.</em> 8: 1-584., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63590410 [details]
