Marine Species Traits - Nearctodesmidae Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1950

Traits name details

Nearctodesmidae Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1950

AphiaID

888746 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:888746)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded rank

Accepted name

Nearctodesminae Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1950

Rank

Family

Parent

Trichopolydesmoidea Verhoeff, 1910

Environment

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

Original description

Chamberlin, R. V.; Hoffman, R. L. (1950). On some genera and families of North American diplopods. Natural History Miscellanea, 71: 1-7. Chicago [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Nearctodesmidae Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1950. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=888746 on 2026-01-05

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Nearctodesmidae Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1950. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=888746 on 2026-01-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-11-03 08:23:38Z

created

Sierwald, Petra

2024-03-08 21:50:34Z

changed

Hennen, Derek

2024-03-10 01:44:22Z

changed

Hennen, Derek

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Sources (4)
Links (2)

original description Chamberlin, R. V.; Hoffman, R. L. (1950). On some genera and families of North American diplopods. Natural History Miscellanea, 71: 1-7. Chicago [details]

additional source Shelley, R. M. (1994). The milliped family Nearctodesmidae in northwestern North America, with accounts of Sakophallus and S. simplex Chamberlin (Polydesmida). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 72(3): 470-495 [details]

additional source Shear, William Albert; Reddell, James M. (2017). Cave millipedes of the United States. XIV. Revalidation of the genus Speorthus Chamberlin, 1952 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Macrosternodesmidae), with a description of a new species from Texas and remarks on the families Polydesmidae and Macrosternodesmidae in North America. Insecta Mundi, 0529: 1-13 [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): 340 [details]

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nearctodesmidae)
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