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Oligodesmus Gill, 1899

AphiaID

893726 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:893726)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (junior objective synonym and preoccupied by Oligodesmus Attems, 1898, Diplopoda)

Accepted name

Decaporodesmus Kenyon, 1899

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Decaporodesmus motzoranginis Kenyon, 1899

Parent

Pyrgodesmidae Silvestri, 1896

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Species Oligodesmus motzoranginis (Kenyon, 1899) accepted as Decaporodesmus motzoranginis Kenyon, 1899

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Kenyon, F. C. (1899). A new Mexican Diplopod, Decaporodesmus motzoranginis, type of a new Family, Decaporodesmidae. Proceedings of The Entomological Society of Washington. 4: 299-300., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2299744
page(s): 300; note: Name Oligodesmus proposed in discussion, attributed to Dr. Gill [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Oligodesmus Gill, 1899. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=893726 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-12-21 12:20:58Z

created

Sierwald, Petra

2017-09-01 12:54:16Z

changed

Spelda, Jörg

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Sources (3)

basis of record 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): 341; note: "preoccupied by Oligodesmus Attems, 1898; proposed to replace Decaporodesmus Kenyon on unjustified grounds and, therefore a junior objective synonym of Decaporodesmus [details]

source of synonymy Hoffman, R. L. (1999). Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication. 8: 1-584., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63590410
page(s): 480 [details]

original description (unavailable nomenclaturally) Kenyon, F. C. (1899). A new Mexican Diplopod, Decaporodesmus motzoranginis, type of a new Family, Decaporodesmidae. Proceedings of The Entomological Society of Washington. 4: 299-300., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2299744
page(s): 300; note: Name Oligodesmus proposed in discussion, attributed to Dr. Gill [details]