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Orthomorpha coarctata (Saussure, 1860)
952609 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:952609)
accepted
Species
Asiomorpha coarctata (De Saussure, 1860) · unaccepted
Asiomorpha watsa (Chamberlin, 1950) · unaccepted
Brasilogonopus attemsi Verhoeff, 1943 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Onciurosoma coarctata (Saussure, 1860) · unaccepted
Orthomorpha coarctata gigas Attems, 1927 · unaccepted
Orthomorpha coarctata var. gigas Attems, 1927 · unaccepted
Orthomorphina coarctata (Saussure, 1860) · unaccepted
Orthomorphina watsa Chamberlin, 1950 · unaccepted
Oxidus coarctatus (Saussure, 1860) · unaccepted
Paradesmus flavocarinatus Daday, 1889 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Paradesmus poeyi Bollman, 1887 · unaccepted
Paradesmus vicarius Karsch, 1881 · unaccepted
Polydesmus coarctata De Saussure, 1860 · unaccepted
Polydesmus coarctatus Saussure, 1860 · unaccepted
Polydesmus lateralis Eschscholtz, 1823 · unaccepted
Strongylazoma poeyi Bollman, 1887 · unaccepted
Strongylosoma coarctata (Saussure, 1860) · unaccepted
Strongylosoma coarctatum (Saussure, 1860) · unaccepted
- Subspecies Orthomorpha coarctata gigas Attems, 1927 accepted as Orthomorpha coarctata (Saussure, 1860)
- Variety Orthomorpha coarctata var. gigas Attems, 1927 accepted as Orthomorpha coarctata (Saussure, 1860)
(of Polydesmus coarctata De Saussure, 1860) Saussure, H. L. F. de. (1860). Essai d'une faune des Myriapodes du Mexique avec la description de quelques espèces des autres parties de l'Amérique. <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physiques et d'Histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 15(2): 135 pages, starts page 259, page numbering uncertain., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10918573
page(s): 297 [details]
page(s): 297 [details]
Type locality contained in French Guiana
type locality contained in French Guiana (origin: alien) [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Decker, P.; Sierwald, P.; Spelda, J.; Barber, A.D.; Antic, D.; Bouzan, R.; Enghoff, H.; Hennen, D.; Iniesta, L. F. M.; Means, J.; Nguyen, A. D.; Simmons, E.; Wesener, T. (2026). MilliBase. Orthomorpha coarctata (Saussure, 1860). Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/rest/AphiaRecordsByTaxonRankID/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=952609 on 2026-07-15
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(of Orthomorphina watsa Chamberlin, 1950) Chamberlin, R. V. (1950). Neotropical Chilopods and Diplopods in the collection of the department of tropical research, New York. Zoologica, New York, 35(2): 133-144. New York, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.184615
page(s): 144 [details]
original description (of Polydesmus coarctata De Saussure, 1860) Saussure, H. L. F. de. (1860). Essai d'une faune des Myriapodes du Mexique avec la description de quelques espèces des autres parties de l'Amérique. <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physiques et d'Histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 15(2): 135 pages, starts page 259, page numbering uncertain., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10918573
page(s): 297 [details]
original description (of Brasilogonopus attemsi Verhoeff, 1943) Verhoeff, K. W. (1943). Über einige Diplopoden aus Minas Gerais (Brasilien). Arquivos do Museu Nacional, 37: 247-288
page(s): 275 [details]
original description (of Polydesmus lateralis Eschscholtz, 1823) Eschscholtz, [J.] F. (1823). Animals tetracera et Myriapoda exotica. <em>Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.</em> 6: 111-114., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54196719
page(s): 113 [details]
original description (of Paradesmus flavocarinatus Daday, 1889) Daday, J. (1889). A Magyar nemzeti muzeum indegenföldi Myriopodái - Myriapoda extranea musaei nationalis hungarici. Természentrajzi Füzetek, 12: 115-156. Budapest, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31106755
page(s): 136 [details]
original description (of Orthomorpha coarctata gigas Attems, 1927) Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1927). Myriopoden von Ambon und anderen Inseln der Banda-See. Zoölogische mededeelingen, 10(1): 61-70
page(s): 63 [details]
original description (of Paradesmus vicarius Karsch, 1881) Karsch, F. (1881). Zum Studium der Myriopoda Polydesmida. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 47(1): 36-49. Berlin., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6378003
page(s): 38 [details]
original description (of Paradesmus poeyi Bollman, 1887) Bollman, C. H. (1887). New North American myriapods. Entomologica Americana, 3: 81-83, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11405971
page(s): 82 [details]
original description (of Strongylazoma poeyi Bollman, 1887) Bollman, C. H. (1893). The Myriapoda of North America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 46: 1-210. Washington, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32368404
page(s): 70; note: Corrected spelling of genus. [details]
original description (of Strongylazoma poeyi Bollman, 1887) Bollman, C. H. (1887). New North American myriapods. Entomologica Americana, 3: 81-83, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11405971
page(s): 82; note: According to Hoffman, 1999, "Strongylazoma [sic!] poeyi Bollman, 1887...the misspelling was corrected in the 1893 collection of Bollman publications, pp.70, 86." [details]
original description (of Orthomorpha coarctata var. gigas Attems, 1927) Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1927). Myriopoden von Ambon und anderen Inseln der Banda-See. Zoölogische mededeelingen, 10(1): 61-70
page(s): 61 [details]
additional source Loomis, H. F. (1959). A new milliped from Honduras. <em>Ceiba. Esc. Agric. Panam.</em> 8(2): 41-43.
page(s): 41; note: reported a male and female specimen from Honduras [details]
additional source Jeekel, C. A. W. (1982). New records and decriptions of southeast Asian Paradoxosomatidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Bollettino del musei civico di storia naturale di Verona, 9: 225-253
page(s): 225; note: cites material from Indonesia: Bali and Lombok [details]
additional source Golovatch, S. I.; Korsós, Z. (1992). Diplopoda collected by the Soviet Zoological Expedition to the Seychelles Islands in 1984. Acta Zoologica Hungarica, 38(1-2): 1-31
page(s): 25 [details]
additional source Golovatch, S.I.; Stoev, P. (2013). The millipede family Paradoxosomatidae in the Philippines, with a description of Eustrongylosoma penevi sp.n., and notes on Anoplodesmus anthracinus Pocock, 1895, recorded in Malaysia and Sri Lanka for the first time (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). <em>Biodiversity Data Journal.</em> 1: e957., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.1.e957
page(s): 14 [details]
additional source Golovatch, S. I. (2017). On several new or poorly-known Oriental Paradoxosomatidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida), XXII. <em>Arthropoda Selecta.</em> 26(2): 87–102.
page(s): 91 [details] Available for editors
additional source Likhitrakarn, N.; Jirapatrasilp, P.; Golovatch, S. I.; Panha, S. (2017). A checklist of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Myanmar, with an updated list of Leonardo Fea's collecting localities. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4350(1): 1-46., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4350.1.1
page(s): 24 [details]
additional source Iniesta, L. F. M.; Bouzan, R. S.; Rodrigues, P. E. D. S.; Almeida, T. M. D.; Ott, R.; Brescovit, A. D. (2021). A preliminary survey and range extension of millipedes species introduced in Brazil (Myriapoda, Diplopoda). <em>Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia.</em> 61: e20216188., available online at http://doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2021.61.88
page(s): 6, Figs. 1B, 4A, 5B [details]
additional source Cupul-Magaña, Fabio Germán; Shelley, Rowland M. (2011). Nuevas localidades para ocho especies de milpiés (Arthropoda: Diplopoda) en México [New localities for eight millipedes species (Arthropoda: Diplopoda) from Mexico]. Dugesiana, 18 (1): 91-94, available online at https://doi.org/10.32870/dugesiana.v18i1.3994 [details]
additional source Recuero Gil, Ernesto; García-París, Mario. (2016). A new North American region colonized by the Australian millipede Akamptogonus novarae (Humbert & DeSaussure, 1869) (Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), with a key for the known Paradoxosomatidae species from North and Central America and the Caribbean Islands. North-Western Journal of Zoology, 12 (2): 385-389, available online at https://biozoojournals.ro/nwjz/content/v12n2/nwjz_e152303_recuero.pdf [details] Available for editors
additional source Likhitrakarn, N.; Golovatch, S. I.; Thi, S.; Sophea, C.; Lou, V.; Sinovas, P.; Jeratthitikul, E.; Pholyotha, A.; Siriwut, W.; Srisonchai, R.; Panha, S.; Sutcharit, C. (2025). Review of the millipede genus Orthomorpha Bollman, 1893 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) in Cambodia, with new records and descriptions of three new species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1251: 251-274., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1251.158776
page(s): 253 [details]
additional source Khan, R. (2019). Long-flange Millipede Orthomorpha coarctata (De Saussure, 1860) – a new exotic arthropod for the UAE. <em>Tribulus, the Journal of the Emirates Natural History Group.</em> 27: 54-55., available online at https://enhg.org/Portals/1/trib/V27/Trib27resize.pdf
page(s): 54-55 [details]
additional source Decker, P.; Nzoko Fiemapong, A. R.; Reip, H. S.; Makon, S. M.; Mbenoun Massé, P. S. (2026). The first record of the tropical tramp millipede Orthomorpha coarctata (de Saussure, 1860) in Cameroon (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae). <em>African Zoology.</em> : 1-6., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2025.2593675
page(s): 1-6, figs. 1-4 [details]
source of synonymy Kraus, O. (1958). Myriapoden von den Galapagos-Inseln. Senckenbergiana biologica, 39(1-2): 97-102. Frankfurt am Main
page(s): 101 [details]
source of synonymy Enghoff, H.; Golovatch, S. I.; Nguyen Duc, A. (2004). A review of the millipede fauna of Vietnam (Diplopoda). Arthropoda Selecta, 13(1-2): 29-43. Moscow
page(s): 37 [details]
source of synonymy Hoffman, R. L. (1999). Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication.</em> 8: 1-584., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63590410
page(s): 435 [details]
page(s): 144 [details]
original description (of Polydesmus coarctata De Saussure, 1860) Saussure, H. L. F. de. (1860). Essai d'une faune des Myriapodes du Mexique avec la description de quelques espèces des autres parties de l'Amérique. <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physiques et d'Histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 15(2): 135 pages, starts page 259, page numbering uncertain., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10918573
page(s): 297 [details]
original description (of Brasilogonopus attemsi Verhoeff, 1943) Verhoeff, K. W. (1943). Über einige Diplopoden aus Minas Gerais (Brasilien). Arquivos do Museu Nacional, 37: 247-288
page(s): 275 [details]
original description (of Polydesmus lateralis Eschscholtz, 1823) Eschscholtz, [J.] F. (1823). Animals tetracera et Myriapoda exotica. <em>Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.</em> 6: 111-114., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54196719
page(s): 113 [details]
original description (of Paradesmus flavocarinatus Daday, 1889) Daday, J. (1889). A Magyar nemzeti muzeum indegenföldi Myriopodái - Myriapoda extranea musaei nationalis hungarici. Természentrajzi Füzetek, 12: 115-156. Budapest, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31106755
page(s): 136 [details]
original description (of Orthomorpha coarctata gigas Attems, 1927) Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1927). Myriopoden von Ambon und anderen Inseln der Banda-See. Zoölogische mededeelingen, 10(1): 61-70
page(s): 63 [details]
original description (of Paradesmus vicarius Karsch, 1881) Karsch, F. (1881). Zum Studium der Myriopoda Polydesmida. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 47(1): 36-49. Berlin., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6378003
page(s): 38 [details]
original description (of Paradesmus poeyi Bollman, 1887) Bollman, C. H. (1887). New North American myriapods. Entomologica Americana, 3: 81-83, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11405971
page(s): 82 [details]
original description (of Strongylazoma poeyi Bollman, 1887) Bollman, C. H. (1893). The Myriapoda of North America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 46: 1-210. Washington, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32368404
page(s): 70; note: Corrected spelling of genus. [details]
original description (of Strongylazoma poeyi Bollman, 1887) Bollman, C. H. (1887). New North American myriapods. Entomologica Americana, 3: 81-83, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11405971
page(s): 82; note: According to Hoffman, 1999, "Strongylazoma [sic!] poeyi Bollman, 1887...the misspelling was corrected in the 1893 collection of Bollman publications, pp.70, 86." [details]
original description (of Orthomorpha coarctata var. gigas Attems, 1927) Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1927). Myriopoden von Ambon und anderen Inseln der Banda-See. Zoölogische mededeelingen, 10(1): 61-70
page(s): 61 [details]
additional source Loomis, H. F. (1959). A new milliped from Honduras. <em>Ceiba. Esc. Agric. Panam.</em> 8(2): 41-43.
page(s): 41; note: reported a male and female specimen from Honduras [details]
additional source Jeekel, C. A. W. (1982). New records and decriptions of southeast Asian Paradoxosomatidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Bollettino del musei civico di storia naturale di Verona, 9: 225-253
page(s): 225; note: cites material from Indonesia: Bali and Lombok [details]
additional source Golovatch, S. I.; Korsós, Z. (1992). Diplopoda collected by the Soviet Zoological Expedition to the Seychelles Islands in 1984. Acta Zoologica Hungarica, 38(1-2): 1-31
page(s): 25 [details]
additional source Golovatch, S.I.; Stoev, P. (2013). The millipede family Paradoxosomatidae in the Philippines, with a description of Eustrongylosoma penevi sp.n., and notes on Anoplodesmus anthracinus Pocock, 1895, recorded in Malaysia and Sri Lanka for the first time (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). <em>Biodiversity Data Journal.</em> 1: e957., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.1.e957
page(s): 14 [details]
additional source Golovatch, S. I. (2017). On several new or poorly-known Oriental Paradoxosomatidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida), XXII. <em>Arthropoda Selecta.</em> 26(2): 87–102.
page(s): 91 [details] Available for editors
additional source Likhitrakarn, N.; Jirapatrasilp, P.; Golovatch, S. I.; Panha, S. (2017). A checklist of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Myanmar, with an updated list of Leonardo Fea's collecting localities. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4350(1): 1-46., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4350.1.1
page(s): 24 [details]
additional source Iniesta, L. F. M.; Bouzan, R. S.; Rodrigues, P. E. D. S.; Almeida, T. M. D.; Ott, R.; Brescovit, A. D. (2021). A preliminary survey and range extension of millipedes species introduced in Brazil (Myriapoda, Diplopoda). <em>Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia.</em> 61: e20216188., available online at http://doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2021.61.88
page(s): 6, Figs. 1B, 4A, 5B [details]
additional source Cupul-Magaña, Fabio Germán; Shelley, Rowland M. (2011). Nuevas localidades para ocho especies de milpiés (Arthropoda: Diplopoda) en México [New localities for eight millipedes species (Arthropoda: Diplopoda) from Mexico]. Dugesiana, 18 (1): 91-94, available online at https://doi.org/10.32870/dugesiana.v18i1.3994 [details]
additional source Recuero Gil, Ernesto; García-París, Mario. (2016). A new North American region colonized by the Australian millipede Akamptogonus novarae (Humbert & DeSaussure, 1869) (Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), with a key for the known Paradoxosomatidae species from North and Central America and the Caribbean Islands. North-Western Journal of Zoology, 12 (2): 385-389, available online at https://biozoojournals.ro/nwjz/content/v12n2/nwjz_e152303_recuero.pdf [details] Available for editors
additional source Likhitrakarn, N.; Golovatch, S. I.; Thi, S.; Sophea, C.; Lou, V.; Sinovas, P.; Jeratthitikul, E.; Pholyotha, A.; Siriwut, W.; Srisonchai, R.; Panha, S.; Sutcharit, C. (2025). Review of the millipede genus Orthomorpha Bollman, 1893 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) in Cambodia, with new records and descriptions of three new species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1251: 251-274., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1251.158776
page(s): 253 [details]
additional source Khan, R. (2019). Long-flange Millipede Orthomorpha coarctata (De Saussure, 1860) – a new exotic arthropod for the UAE. <em>Tribulus, the Journal of the Emirates Natural History Group.</em> 27: 54-55., available online at https://enhg.org/Portals/1/trib/V27/Trib27resize.pdf
page(s): 54-55 [details]
additional source Decker, P.; Nzoko Fiemapong, A. R.; Reip, H. S.; Makon, S. M.; Mbenoun Massé, P. S. (2026). The first record of the tropical tramp millipede Orthomorpha coarctata (de Saussure, 1860) in Cameroon (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae). <em>African Zoology.</em> : 1-6., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2025.2593675
page(s): 1-6, figs. 1-4 [details]
source of synonymy Kraus, O. (1958). Myriapoden von den Galapagos-Inseln. Senckenbergiana biologica, 39(1-2): 97-102. Frankfurt am Main
page(s): 101 [details]
source of synonymy Enghoff, H.; Golovatch, S. I.; Nguyen Duc, A. (2004). A review of the millipede fauna of Vietnam (Diplopoda). Arthropoda Selecta, 13(1-2): 29-43. Moscow
page(s): 37 [details]
source of synonymy Hoffman, R. L. (1999). Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication.</em> 8: 1-584., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63590410
page(s): 435 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
