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WoRMS taxon details
Polyxenus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758)
151192 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151192)
accepted
Species
Iulus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted
Iulus penicillatus DeGeer · unaccepted
Julus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted (basionym)
Julus penicillatus DeGeer · unaccepted
Pollyxenus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted
Polyxenus germanicus Verhoeff, 1941 · unaccepted
Polyxenus lagura (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted
Polyxenus lagurus caucasicus Lignau, 1924 · unaccepted
Polyxenus lagurus var. caucasicus Lignau, 1924 · unaccepted
Scolopendra lagura Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted
Scolopendra lagurus Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted
marine, terrestrial
(of Scolopendra lagura Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 637 [details] Available for editors
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(of Scolopendra lagurus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 637 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 637 [details] Available for editors
[request](of Scolopendra lagurus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 637 [details] Available for editors
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Type locality contained in Sweden
type locality contained in Sweden [from synonym] [details]
WoRMS (2025). Polyxenus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151192 on 2025-07-18
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Polyxenus germanicus Verhoeff, 1941) Verhoeff, K. W. (1941). Zur Kenntnis der Polyxenus-Arten. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 133(11-12): 259-264. Leipzig
page(s): 263 [details]
original description (of Scolopendra lagura Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 637 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Scolopendra lagurus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 637 [details] Available for editors [request]
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) [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 263 [details]
original description (of Scolopendra lagura Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 637 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Scolopendra lagurus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 637 [details] Available for editors
[request]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) [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Blower, J.G. (1985) Millipedes. Linnean Society Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) 35. E.J.Brill/Dr W.Backhuys, London, Leiden, Koln, Kobenhavn. [details]
additional source Brölemann, H. W. (1921). Myriapods from Mesopotamia and Persia collected by Mr. P. A. Buxton. <em>Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.</em> 28: 165-169., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30112699
page(s): 160-161, fig. 5 [details]
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
page(s): 130 [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 Golovatch, S. I.; Wesener, T. (2016). A species checklist of the millipedes (Myriapoda, Diplopoda) of India. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4129(1): 1-75., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4129.1.1/21377
page(s): 5; note: Indian record 'seems to be highly doubtful.' [details]
additional source Vagalinski, B.; Golovatch, S.; Simaiakis, S. M.; Enghoff, H.; Stoev, P. (2014). Millipedes of Cyprus (Myriapoda: Diplopoda). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3835(4): 528-548., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3835.4.5
page(s): 529 [details]
additional source Short, M.; Vahtera, V.; Wesener, T.; Golovatch, S. I. (2020). The millipede family Polyxenidae (Diplopoda, Polyxenida) in the faunas of the Crimean Peninsula and Caucasus, with notes on other European Polyxenidae. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4772(2): 306-332., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4772.2.4
page(s): 320-322, fig. 5, Map fig. 1 [details]
additional source Kocourek, P.; Dolejš, P.; Kovaříková, A. (2023). Atlas rozšíření mnohonožek v České republice / Atlas of the Millipedes of the Czech Republic.
page(s): 125-126; note: Detailed distribution data. [details]
additional source Haľková, B.; Drabová, M.; Mock, A. (2021). An annotated checklist of millipede fauna from Slovakia, with ecological and biogeographic characteristics. <em>Biodiversity Data Journal.</em> 9., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.9.e71495
page(s): 4 [details]
additional source Reip, H. S.; Voigtländer, K. (2024). Millipedes (Diplopoda) of the Euskal Herria / Basque Region in Northern España/Spain – Results of an international field trip in 2009. <em>Schubartiana.</em> 11: 27-70., available online at https://www.schubartiana.de/issues/pdf/vol11/reip-2024-Diplopoda_Basque_Region_Spain_field_trip_2009.pdf
page(s): 39 [details]
additional source Brölemann, H. W. (1921). Myriapods from Mesopotamia and Persia collected by Mr. P. A. Buxton. <em>Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.</em> 28: 165-169., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30112699
page(s): 160-161, fig. 5 [details]
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
page(s): 130 [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 Golovatch, S. I.; Wesener, T. (2016). A species checklist of the millipedes (Myriapoda, Diplopoda) of India. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4129(1): 1-75., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4129.1.1/21377
page(s): 5; note: Indian record 'seems to be highly doubtful.' [details]
additional source Vagalinski, B.; Golovatch, S.; Simaiakis, S. M.; Enghoff, H.; Stoev, P. (2014). Millipedes of Cyprus (Myriapoda: Diplopoda). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3835(4): 528-548., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3835.4.5
page(s): 529 [details]
additional source Short, M.; Vahtera, V.; Wesener, T.; Golovatch, S. I. (2020). The millipede family Polyxenidae (Diplopoda, Polyxenida) in the faunas of the Crimean Peninsula and Caucasus, with notes on other European Polyxenidae. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4772(2): 306-332., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4772.2.4
page(s): 320-322, fig. 5, Map fig. 1 [details]
additional source Kocourek, P.; Dolejš, P.; Kovaříková, A. (2023). Atlas rozšíření mnohonožek v České republice / Atlas of the Millipedes of the Czech Republic.
page(s): 125-126; note: Detailed distribution data. [details]
additional source Haľková, B.; Drabová, M.; Mock, A. (2021). An annotated checklist of millipede fauna from Slovakia, with ecological and biogeographic characteristics. <em>Biodiversity Data Journal.</em> 9., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.9.e71495
page(s): 4 [details]
additional source Reip, H. S.; Voigtländer, K. (2024). Millipedes (Diplopoda) of the Euskal Herria / Basque Region in Northern España/Spain – Results of an international field trip in 2009. <em>Schubartiana.</em> 11: 27-70., available online at https://www.schubartiana.de/issues/pdf/vol11/reip-2024-Diplopoda_Basque_Region_Spain_field_trip_2009.pdf
page(s): 39 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Habitat sometimes in littoral zone [details]
