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Rhymogona Cook, 1896

Macheiriophoron alemannicum

AphiaID

892497 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:892497)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Atractosoma montivagum Verhoeff, 1894 accepted as Rhymogona montivaga (Verhoeff, 1894) (type by original designation)

Parent

Rhymogoninae Hoffman, 1980

Synonymised names

Macheiriophoron Verhoeff, 1897 · unaccepted (junior objective synonym)

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Species Rhymogona cervina (Verhoeff, 1910)
Species Rhymogona hessei (Ravoux, 1935)
Species Rhymogona montivaga (Verhoeff, 1894)
Species Rhymogona serrata (Bigler, 1912)
Species Rhymogona verhoeffi (Bigler, 1913)
Species Rhymogona wehrana (Verhoeff, 1910)
Species Rhymogona aelleni (Schubart, 1960) accepted as Rhymogona cervina (Verhoeff, 1910)
Species Rhymogona alemannica (Verhoeff, 1910) accepted as Rhymogona montivaga alemannica (Verhoeff, 1910)
Species Rhymogona montivagum (Verhoeff, 1894) accepted as Rhymogona montivaga (Verhoeff, 1894)
Species Rhymogona silvatica (Verhoeff, 1894) accepted as Rhymogona montivaga (Verhoeff, 1894)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Cook, O. F. (1896). On recent diplopod names. Brandtia (A series of occasional papers an Diplopoda and other Arthropoda). 2: 5-8.
page(s): 8 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Rhymogona Cook, 1896. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=892497 on 2026-08-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-12-20 08:40:13Z

created

Sierwald, Petra

2017-09-01 12:54:16Z

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Spelda, Jörg

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original description Cook, O. F. (1896). On recent diplopod names. Brandtia (A series of occasional papers an Diplopoda and other Arthropoda). 2: 5-8.
page(s): 8 [details]

original description (of Macheiriophoron Verhoeff, 1897) Verhoeff, K. W. (1897). Beiträge zur Kenntniss paläarktischer Myriopoden. V. Aufsatz: Übersicht der mir genauer bekannten europäischen Chordeumiden-Gattungen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 63(1): 129-138, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14194402
page(s): 138 [details]

additional source Kime, R. D.; Enghoff, H. (2021). Atlas of European millipedes 3: Order Chordeumatida (Class Diplopoda). European Journal of Taxonomy. 769: 1-244., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.769.1497
page(s): 100; note: This genus epitomizes the difficulties with interpreting morphological variation in terms of a meaningful taxonomy. Rhymogona has been regarded as a monospecific genus or a “ring species” (Pedrol...

This genus epitomizes the difficulties with interpreting morphological variation in terms of a meaningful taxonomy. Rhymogona has been regarded as a monospecific genus or a “ring species” (Pedroli-Christen & Scholl 1996a, 1996b), but we here follow Spelda (2005) and recognize five separate species.

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