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Prepodesminae Cook, 1896

888942  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:888942)

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Xyodesmidae Cook, 1896 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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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] 
Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Prepodesminae Cook, 1896. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=888942 on 2026-02-23
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Prepodesminae Cook, 1896. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=888942 on 2026-02-23
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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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