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Lacnodesmus Cook, 1896

Oxydesmus arenaceus

AphiaID

891883 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:891883)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Oxydesmus campii Cook, 1895 accepted as Lacnodesmus campi (Cook, 1895) (type by original designation)

Parent

Oxydesmini Cook, 1895

Direct children (10)

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Species Lacnodesmus angolae (Hoffman, 1982)
Species Lacnodesmus campi (Cook, 1895)
Species Lacnodesmus mazolanus (Attems, 1929)
Species Lacnodesmus sicarius (Attems, 1927)
Species Lacnodesmus valgus Cook, 1896 (uncertain, oxydesminae of uncertain systematic position)
Species Lacnodesmus campii (Cook, 1895) accepted as Lacnodesmus campi (Cook, 1895)
Species Lacnodesmus flabellatus (Cook, 1895) accepted as Congoromus flabellatus (Cook, 1895)
Species Lacnodesmus ituri Cook, 1896 accepted as Oxydesmus ituri (Cook, 1896) accepted as Congoromus flabellatus (Cook, 1895)
Species Lacnodesmus ituru Cook, 1896 accepted as Congoromus flabellatus (Cook, 1895)
Species Lacnodesmus thyridotus Cook, 1896 accepted as Crystallomus thyridotus (Cook, 1896)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Cook, O. F. (1896). The genera of Oxydesmidae. Brandtia (A series of occasional papers an Diplopoda and other Arthropoda), 3: 9-14, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52583880
page(s): 11 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Lacnodesmus Cook, 1896. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=891883 on 2026-09-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-12-20 08:40:13Z

created

Sierwald, Petra

2017-09-01 12:54:16Z

changed

Spelda, Jörg

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original description Cook, O. F. (1896). The genera of Oxydesmidae. Brandtia (A series of occasional papers an Diplopoda and other Arthropoda), 3: 9-14, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52583880
page(s): 11 [details]

additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1990). Myriapoda 4. Polydesmida: Oxydesmidae. Das Tierreich, 107: 1-115. Berlin, New York
page(s): 367-369; note: key to species [details]

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