Traits taxon details
original description
Cook, O. F. (1896). A new diplopod fauna in Liberia. American Naturalist, 30: 413-420, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41431949, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/276402 page(s): 415 [details]
original description
(of Xyodesmidae Cook, 1896) Cook, O. F. (1896). On the Xyodesmidae, a new family. Brandtia (A series of occasional papers an Diplopoda and other Arthropoda), 4: 15-17 page(s): 15 [details]
basis of record
Chamberlin, R. V. (1952). An arrangement of the Prepodesmidae, a family of African millipeds. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 42: 327-333., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39697689 page(s): 327 [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): 282 [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): 38; note: maintains Prepodesminae (=Cordyloporinae) as a chelodesmid subfamily [details]
source of synonymy
Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève. page(s): 155; note: moved all of Prepodesmidae into the Prepodesminae that was first proposed to contain a select group of prepodesmine genera by Chamberlin, 1952. [details]
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