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Polyxenus Latzel, 1884
151186 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151186)
accepted
Genus
Japonixenus Ishii & Tamura, 1995 · unaccepted (Invalidly proposed genus)
Pollyxenus Latreille, 1802 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling
- Species Polyxenus albus Pocock, 1895
- Species Polyxenus anacapensis Pierce, 1940
- Species Polyxenus anophthalius Ishii & Yin, 2000
- Species Polyxenus caudatus Menge, 1854
- Species Polyxenus chalcidicus Condé & Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy, 1970
- Species Polyxenus chilensis Silvestri, 1903
- Species Polyxenus colurus Menge, 1854
- Species Polyxenus conformis C. L. Koch & Berendt, 1854
- Species Polyxenus fasciculatus (Say, 1821)
- Species Polyxenus hangzhoensis Ishii & Liang, 1990
- Species Polyxenus hawaiiensis Silvestri, 1904
- Species Polyxenus koreanus Ishii & Choi, 1988
- Species Polyxenus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Polyxenus lankaranensis Short, Vahtera, Wesener & Golovatch, 2020
- Species Polyxenus lapidicola Silvestri, 1903
- Species Polyxenus lepagei Mello-Laeitao, 1925
- Species Polyxenus lophurus Menge, 1854
- Species Polyxenus macedonicus Verhoeff, 1952
- Species Polyxenus oromii Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy, 1996
- Species Polyxenus ovalis C. L. Koch & Berendt, 1854
- Species Polyxenus paraguayensis Silvestri, 1903
- Species Polyxenus platensis Silvestri, 1903
- Species Polyxenus pugetensis Kincaid, 1898
- Species Polyxenus rossi Chamberlin, 1957
- Species Polyxenus senex Mello-Laeitao, 1925
- Species Polyxenus shinoharai Ishii, 1983
- Species Polyxenus superbus Silvestri, 1903
- Species Polyxenus triocellatus Ishii & Yin, 2000
- Species Polyxenus tuberculatus Pierce, 1940
- Species Polyxenus miocenica Srivasta, Shukla, Kumar, Kumar & Prakash, 2006 † (uncertain, Diplopoda incertae sedis)
- Species Polyxenus actinolophus Lignau, 1924 accepted as Saroxenus actinolophus (Lignau, 1924)
- Species Polyxenus aethiopicus (Chalande, 1908) accepted as Ankistroxenus aethiopicus (Chalande, 1908)
- Species Polyxenus argentifer Verhoeff, 1921 accepted as Propolyxenus argentifer (Verhoeff, 1921)
- Species Polyxenus bartschi Chamberlin, 1922 accepted as Macroxenodes bartschi (Chamberlin, 1922)
- Species Polyxenus burmiticus Cockerell, 1917 accepted as Phryssonotus burmiticus (Cockerell, 1917)
- Species Polyxenus ceylonicus Pocock, 1892 accepted as Silvestrus ceylonicus (Pocock, 1892)
- Species Polyxenus germanicus Verhoeff, 1941 accepted as Polyxenus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Polyxenus lagura (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Polyxenus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Polyxenus longisetis Pocock, 1894 accepted as Lophoturus longisetis (Pocock, 1894)
- Species Polyxenus lucidus Chalande, 1888 accepted as Pollyxenus lucidus Chalande, 1888 accepted as Lophoproctus lucidus (Chalande, 1888)
- Species Polyxenus Meinerti Silvestri, 1898 accepted as Macroxenodes meinerti (Silvestri, 1898)
- Species Polyxenus patagonicus Silvestri, 1903 accepted as Propolyxenus patagonicus (Silvestri, 1903)
- Species Polyxenus platycephalus Lucas, 1846 accepted as Kubanus platycephalus (Lucas, 1846) accepted as Phryssonotus platycephalus (Lucas, 1846)
- Species Polyxenus poecilus Chamberlin, 1923 accepted as Macroxenodes poecilus (Chamberlin, 1923)
- Species Polyxenus ponticus Lignau, 1904 accepted as Lophoproctus coecus Pocock, 1895
- Species Polyxenus rosendinus Silvestri, 1903 accepted as Chilexenus rosendinus (Silvestri, 1903)
- Species Polyxenus rubromarginatus Lucas, 1846 accepted as Macroxenus rubromarginatus (Lucas, 1846)
- Species Polyxenus sokolowi Lignau, 1924 accepted as Propolyxenus argentifer (Verhoeff, 1921)
- Species Polyxenus trivittatus Verhoeff, 1941 accepted as Propolyxenus argentifer (Verhoeff, 1921)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
masculine
Latzel, R. (1884). Die Myriopoden der Österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie. Zweite Hälfte. Die Symphylen, Pauropoden und Diplopoden. 1-414. Wien, available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c089915321&seq=7
page(s): 70 [details]
page(s): 70 [details]
MilliBase (2026). Polyxenus Latzel, 1884. Accessed at: https://millibase.org/rest/AphiaChildrenByAphiaID/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151186 on 2026-09-08
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original description
Latzel, R. (1884). Die Myriopoden der Österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie. Zweite Hälfte. Die Symphylen, Pauropoden und Diplopoden. 1-414. Wien, available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c089915321&seq=7
page(s): 70 [details]
original description (of Pollyxenus Latreille, 1802) Latreille, P.A. (1802 - 1805). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. [Natural History, General and Particular, of Crustaceans and Insects. Natural Families of Genera.]. <em>Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. de L'imprimerie de F. Dufart, Paris.</em> 14 vols:413 pp., available online at http:// http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24884876
page(s): 45 [details]
taxonomy source I.C.Z.N. (1970). Opinion 905: <em>Polyxenus </em>Latreille [1802-1803]: Valdidation of Emendation from <em>Pollyxenus</em>. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 27: 6-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12224197
page(s): 6; note: "The present case was submitted to the office of the Commission in November 1966 by Dr. O. Kraus" [details]
basis of record Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
additional source Condé, B. (1996). Une approche des Diplopoda Penicillata de l'Amerique du Nord. Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, N. S., 169: 127-135, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58835018 [details]
additional source Condé, B.; Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, M. (1987). Le statut de Polyxenus ceylonicus Pocock et de Polyxenus poecilus Chamberlin (Diplopodes Penicillates). Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol, 24(1): 99-107 [details]
additional source Condé, Bruno; Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, Monique. (2008). Classification actuelle des diplopodes penicillates (Myriapodes) avec nouvelles definitions des taxa [Present classification of Diplopoda Penicillata (Myriapoda), with new definitions of taxa]. <em>Bulletin de la societe zoologique de France.</em> 133 (4): 291-302. [details] Available for editors
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 31, 32, 54 [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): 4, 7; note: see Jeekel's discussion; see I.C.Z.N. Opinion 905 [details]
additional source Kime, R. D.; Enghoff, H. (2011). Atlas of European Millipedes (Class Diplopoda) Volume 1 Orders Polyxenida, Glomerida, Platydesmida, Siphonocryptida, Polyzoniida, Callipodida, Polydesmida. <em>Fauna Europaea Evertebrata.</em> 3: 1-282; June 2011.
page(s): 20 [details]
additional source Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, M. (1976). Etude de la variabilité des charactères de deux espèces du genre Polyxenus, P. lagurus (L.) et P. fasciculatus SAY (Diplopode, Pénicillate). Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 3e série, Zoologie, 249: 105-118, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57657544 [details]
additional source Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, Monique. (2009). Revision of the genera of Polyxenidae bearing pseudoarticulated gnathochilarial sensilla (Diplopoda, Polyxenida, Polyxenidae), with the description of two new species. <em>Zoosystema.</em> 31 (4): 829-848., available online at https://doi.org/10.5252/z2009n4a5 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 70 [details]
original description (of Pollyxenus Latreille, 1802) Latreille, P.A. (1802 - 1805). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. [Natural History, General and Particular, of Crustaceans and Insects. Natural Families of Genera.]. <em>Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. de L'imprimerie de F. Dufart, Paris.</em> 14 vols:413 pp., available online at http:// http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24884876
page(s): 45 [details]
taxonomy source I.C.Z.N. (1970). Opinion 905: <em>Polyxenus </em>Latreille [1802-1803]: Valdidation of Emendation from <em>Pollyxenus</em>. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 27: 6-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12224197
page(s): 6; note: "The present case was submitted to the office of the Commission in November 1966 by Dr. O. Kraus" [details]
basis of record Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
additional source Condé, B. (1996). Une approche des Diplopoda Penicillata de l'Amerique du Nord. Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, N. S., 169: 127-135, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58835018 [details]
additional source Condé, B.; Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, M. (1987). Le statut de Polyxenus ceylonicus Pocock et de Polyxenus poecilus Chamberlin (Diplopodes Penicillates). Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol, 24(1): 99-107 [details]
additional source Condé, Bruno; Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, Monique. (2008). Classification actuelle des diplopodes penicillates (Myriapodes) avec nouvelles definitions des taxa [Present classification of Diplopoda Penicillata (Myriapoda), with new definitions of taxa]. <em>Bulletin de la societe zoologique de France.</em> 133 (4): 291-302. [details] Available for editors
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 31, 32, 54 [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): 4, 7; note: see Jeekel's discussion; see I.C.Z.N. Opinion 905 [details]
additional source Kime, R. D.; Enghoff, H. (2011). Atlas of European Millipedes (Class Diplopoda) Volume 1 Orders Polyxenida, Glomerida, Platydesmida, Siphonocryptida, Polyzoniida, Callipodida, Polydesmida. <em>Fauna Europaea Evertebrata.</em> 3: 1-282; June 2011.
page(s): 20 [details]
additional source Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, M. (1976). Etude de la variabilité des charactères de deux espèces du genre Polyxenus, P. lagurus (L.) et P. fasciculatus SAY (Diplopode, Pénicillate). Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 3e série, Zoologie, 249: 105-118, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57657544 [details]
additional source Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, Monique. (2009). Revision of the genera of Polyxenidae bearing pseudoarticulated gnathochilarial sensilla (Diplopoda, Polyxenida, Polyxenidae), with the description of two new species. <em>Zoosystema.</em> 31 (4): 829-848., available online at https://doi.org/10.5252/z2009n4a5 [details] Available for editors
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