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Traits taxon detailsChelodesmidae Cook, 1895
888698 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:888698)
accepted
Family
Cook, O. F.; Collins, G. N. (1895). The Craspedosomatidae of North America. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 9: 1-100. New York, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35260543
page(s): 4 [details]
Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Chelodesmidae Cook, 1895. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=888698 on 2026-09-15
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Chelodesmidae Cook, 1895. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=888698 on 2026-09-15
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original description
Cook, O. F.; Collins, G. N. (1895). The Craspedosomatidae of North America. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 9: 1-100. New York, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35260543
page(s): 4 [details] taxonomy source Minelli, A. (2015). Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2. <em>Brill, Leiden; Boston.</em> 482 pp. page(s): 448; note: listed as a valid family in Table 16.1 [details] additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1940). Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea III. Fam. Polydesmidae, Vanhoeffeniidae, Cryptodesmidae, Oniscodesmidae, Sphaerotrichopidae, Periodontodesmidae, Rhachidesmidae, Macellolophidae, Pandirodesmidae. Das Tierreich, 70: 1-577. Berlin [details] additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1898). System der Polydesmiden. I. Theil. <em>Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klassen.</em> 67: 221-482. Wien., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27925127 page(s): 256 [details] additional source Bouzan, R. S.; Means, J. C.; Ivanov, K.; Brescovit, A. D.; Iniesta, L. F. M. (2024). <em>Tupadesmus</em> (Polydesmida, Chelodesmidae) and <em>T. muyrakyta</em>, a new millipede genus and species from the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, with a checklist of the Chelodesmidae of Pará State. <em>Annales Zoologici Fennici, (Ann. Zool. Fenn).</em> 61: 1-14., available online at https://doi.org/10.5735/086.061.0101 page(s): 11-12; note: Checklist of Chelodesmidae from Pará State, Brazil [details] additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1959). Antrogonodesmus, a new chelodesmoid genus from Cuba, and a redescription of Amphelictogon dolius Chamberlin (Polydesmida, Chelodesmidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 49(8): 284-289 page(s): 284 [details] additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1966). Polydesmoid Diplopoda from the Pacaraima Mountains. Journal of Zoology, 148: 540-553, available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1966.tb02967.x page(s): 541 [details] additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève. page(s): 151; note: List of genera up to 1978 [details] additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1987). A new chelodesmid genus and species from the Peruvian Andes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae). Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 8(129): 335-340 page(s): 335 [details] additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1994). An interesting disjunct new genus of prepodesmine millipeds from Nigeria (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae). Myriapodologica, 3(5): 34-42. Martinsville page(s): 37 [details] additional source 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): 267 [details] additional source Hoffman, R. L. (2006). Diplopoda from Rondonia, Brazil. II. Three new genera in the family Chelodesmidae (Polydesmida). Papéis avulsos de zoologia, 46(5): 43-55, available online at https://doi.org/10.1590/s0031-10492006000500001 page(s): 44 [details] additional source Hoffman, R. L. (2007). Antillodesmus is a lepturodesmine genus (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae). Myriapodologica, 9(1-2): 3-8 page(s): 7 [details] additional source Hoffman, R. L. (2009). A new, disjunct, diplopod genus from Espirito Santo, Brasil (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae). <em>Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo).</em> 49(42): 557-562., available online at https://doi.org/10.1590/s0031-10492009004200001 page(s): 557 [details] Available for editors  additional source Jeekel, C. A. W. (1963). Diplopoda of Guiana (1-5). Studies on the fauna of Suriname and other Guyanas, 4: 1-157. The Hague page(s): 98 [details] additional source Jeekel, C. A. W. (1971). Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: A list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging, 5: 1-412. Amsterdam, available online at https://nev.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mono-05-Jeekel-1970-OCR.pdf page(s): 253 [details] additional source Kime, R. D.; Enghoff, H. (2011). Atlas of European Millipedes (Class Diplopoda) Volume 1 Orders Polyxenida, Glomerida, Platydesmida, Siphonocryptida, Polyzoniida, Callipodida, Polydesmida. <em>Fauna Europaea Evertebrata.</em> 3: 1-282; June 2011. page(s): 50; note: In addition to Cantabrodesmus lorioli one further species of Chelodesmidae has been encountered in Europe, but only in indoor situations. It is Chondrodesmus riparius Carl, 1914, a Neotropical species... In addition to Cantabrodesmus lorioli one further species of Chelodesmidae has been encountered in Europe, but only in indoor situations. It is Chondrodesmus riparius Carl, 1914, a Neotropical species which has recen tl y been found in potted palms in Denmark, Germany and Sweden (Andersson & Enghoff 2007, Enghoff 2008).
additional source Loomis, H. F. (1937). New Jamaican and Cuban millipeds, with notes on several other species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 80: 215-228. Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. page(s): 222 [details] additional source Pena-Barbosa, J. P. P.; Sierwald, P.; Brescovit, A. D. (2013). On the largest chelodesmid millipedes: taxonomic review and cladistic analysis of the genusOdontopeltis Pocock, 1894 (Diplopoda; Polydesmida; Chelodesmidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 169(4): 737-764., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12086 page(s): 737 [details] additional source Pocock, R. I. (1910). Chilopoda and Diplopoda. In: Biologia centrali-americana, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America, edited by F. Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin, 1-217, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/576427 page(s): 160 [details] additional source Romero-Rincon, J. (2024). A review of the millipede genus Carlopeltis Verhoeff, 1938 (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae: Batodesmini). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5424(5): 554-568., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5424.5.4 [details] Available for editors source of synonymy Hoffman, R. L. (1950). The status of the milliped Chelodesmus marxi Cook, and of the family name Chelodesmidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 63: 185-188 page(s): 185; note: Synonymy of Leptodesmidae. [details] identification resource Loomis, H. F. (1936). The millipeds of Hispaniola, with descriptions of a new family, new genera, and new species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 80(1): 1-191. Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2800905 page(s): 78; note: Key to the families of Hispaniola. [details] identification resource Loomis, H. F. (1964). The millipeds of Panama (Diplopoda). Fieldiana, Zoology, 47(1): 1-136. Chicago page(s): 15; note: Key to the families of Panama [details] identification resource Loomis, H. F. (1968). A checklist of the millipeds of Mexico and Central America. <em>United States National Museum Bulletin.</em> 266: 1-137. Washington., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7893582 page(s): 11; note: Key to the Mexican and Central American families. [details] Available for editors |
