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MilliBase taxon details

Phymatodesmus De Saussure & Zehntner, 1902

AphiaID

892320 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:892320)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Polydesmus sakalava De Saussure & Zehntner, 1897 accepted as Polydesmus (Phymatodesmus) sakalava De Saussure & Zehntner, 1897 accepted as Phymatodesmus sakalava (De Saussure & Zehntner, 1897) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Dalodesmidae Cook, 1896

Synonymised names

Polydesmus (Phymatodesmus) De Saussure & Zehntner, 1902 · unaccepted

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Species Phymatodesmus sakalava (De Saussure & Zehntner, 1897)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Original description

Saussure, H. L. F. de; Zehntner, L. (1902). Myriapodes de Madagascar. In: Grandidier, A. (Ed.),. Histoire physique naturelle et politique de Madagascar. 27(53): 1-356. Paris., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1227021
page(s): 95 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Phymatodesmus De Saussure & Zehntner, 1902. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=892320 on 2025-09-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-12-20 08:40:13Z

created

Sierwald, Petra

2017-09-01 12:54:16Z

changed

Spelda, Jörg

2017-11-30 08:31:53Z

changed

Mesibov, Robert

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Sources (6)

original description Saussure, H. L. F. de; Zehntner, L. (1902). Myriapodes de Madagascar. In: Grandidier, A. (Ed.),. Histoire physique naturelle et politique de Madagascar. 27(53): 1-356. Paris., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1227021
page(s): 95 [details]

original description (of Polydesmus (Phymatodesmus) De Saussure & Zehntner, 1902) Saussure, H. L. F. de; Zehntner, L. (1902). Myriapodes de Madagascar. In: Grandidier, A. (Ed.),. Histoire physique naturelle et politique de Madagascar. 27(53): 1-356. Paris., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1227021
page(s): 94 [details]

additional source Jeekel, C. A. W. (1971). Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: A list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging, 5: 1-412. Amsterdam, available online at https://nev.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mono-05-Jeekel-1970-OCR.pdf
page(s): 346 [details]

redescription Wesener, T.; Akkari, N.; Golovatch, S. I. (2025). Revision of the millipede family Dalodesmidae in Madagascar, with descriptions of two new Malagasy species of Dalodesmus Cook, 1896 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). ZooKeys. 1223: 185-220., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1223.139346
page(s): 187 [details]

status source Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 186; note: Tentatively assigned to Vaalogonopodidae [details]

status source Enghoff, H. (2003). Diplopoda, Millipedes. In: Goodman, S.G. & Benstead, J.P. (eds.): The Natural History of Madagascar – The University of Chicago Press, 1760, 617-627
page(s): 623; note: Type and only species Phymatodesmus sakalava listed in Dalodesmidae [details]