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MilliBase taxon details

Sphaerotheriida

AphiaID

887902 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:887902)

Classification

Authority

Brandt, 1833

Status

accepted

Rank

Order

Parent

Oniscomorpha

Direct children (7)
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Family Arthrosphaeridae Jeekel, 1974
Family Cyliosomatidae Jeekel, 1974
Family Procyliosomatidae Wesener & VanDenSpiegel, 2009
Family Sphaerotheriida incertae sedis
Family Sphaerotheriidae Brandt, 1833
Family Zephroniidae Gray in Jones, 1843

Family Sphaeropoeidae Brölemann, 1913 accepted as Zephroniidae Gray in Jones, 1843

Environment

terrestrial

Original description

Brandt, J. F. (1833). Tentaminum quorundam monographicorum Insecta Myriapoda Chilognathi Latreillii spectantium prodromus. Bulletin de la Societé Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 6: 194-209. Moscow, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45989137
page(s): 198 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Spelda, J. (2021). MilliBase. Sphaerotheriida. Accessed at: http://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=887902 on 2023-03-31

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-10-14 10:54:13Z

created

Sierwald, Petra

2016-10-27 22:02:03Z

changed

Sierwald, Petra

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Sources (6)
Links (3)

original description Brandt, J. F. (1833). Tentaminum quorundam monographicorum Insecta Myriapoda Chilognathi Latreillii spectantium prodromus. Bulletin de la Societé Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 6: 194-209. Moscow, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45989137
page(s): 198 [details]

taxonomy source Wesener, T.; VandenSpiegel, D. (2009). A first phylogenetic analysis of Giant Pill-Millipedes (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida), a new model Gondwanan taxon, with special emphasis on island gigantism. Cladistics. 25(6): 545-573., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00267.x [details]

taxonomy source Wesener, T. (2015). Infraclass Pentazonia Brandt, 1833. 370-381. In: Enghoff et al., Diplopoda - Taxonomic overview. Minelli, A. (ed.) The Myriapoda. Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. Vol 2, 482 pp, Brill. [details]

taxonomy source Wesener, T.; Raupach, M. J.; Sierwald, P. (2010). The origins of the giant pill-millipedes from Madagascar (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida: Arthrosphaeridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 57(3): 1184-1193., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2010.08.023 [details]

taxonomy source Jeekel, C. A. W. (1974). The group taxonomy and geography of the Sphaerotheriida (Diplopoda). Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 32: 41-52. London [details]

additional source Wesener, T. (2016). The Giant Pill-Millipedes, order Sphaerotheriida – An annotated species catalogue with morphological atlas and list of apomorphies. Bonn zoological Bulletin Supplementum. 63: 1-107. [details]

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