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MilliBase taxon details

Petaserpes Cope, 1870

Polyzonium rosalbum

AphiaID

893800 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:893800)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Petaserpes rosalbus Cope, 1870 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Petaserpetini

Synonymised names

Hexaglena McNeill, 1887 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

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Species Petaserpes bikermani (Causey, 1951)
Species Petaserpes cryptocephalus (McNeill, 1887)
Species Petaserpes lateralis (Shelley, 1976)
Species Petaserpes mutabilis (Causey, 1951)
Species Petaserpes rosalbus Cope, 1870
Species Petaserpes strictus (Shelley, 1976)
Species Petaserpes quadricauda (Loomis, 1971) accepted as Petaserpes mutabilis (Causey, 1951)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Cope, E. D. (1870). On some new and little known Myriapoda from the Southern Alleghanies. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 6 (35): 425-426.
page(s): 65 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Petaserpes Cope, 1870. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=893800 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

2020-09-17 16:55:18Z

changed

Wesener, Thomas

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original description Cope, E. D. (1870). On some new and little known Myriapoda from the Southern Alleghanies. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 6 (35): 425-426.
page(s): 65 [details]

original description (of Hexaglena McNeill, 1887) McNeill, J. (1887). Description of twelve new species of Myriopoda chiefly from Indiana. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 10: 328-334, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7485448
page(s): 328 [details]

additional source Shelley, R. M. (1998). The milliped family Polyzoniidae in North America, with a classification of the global fauna (Diplopoda Polyzoniida). Arthropoda Selecta, 6(3-4): 3-34. Moscow [details]