Marine Species Traits - Batodesmus Cook, 1896

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Batodesmus Cook, 1896

Batodesmus alutaceus

AphiaID

891108 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:891108)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Batodesmini Cook, 1896

Parent

Batodesmini Cook, 1896

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Species Batodesmus acceptus Carl, 1914
Species Batodesmus alutaceus (Peters, 1864)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

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): 16 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Batodesmus Cook, 1896. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=891108 on 2026-09-15

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Batodesmus Cook, 1896. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=891108 on 2026-09-15

Taxonomic edit history

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2016-12-20 08:40:13Z

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Sierwald, Petra

2017-09-01 12:54:16Z

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Spelda, Jörg

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original description 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): 16 [details]

additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1898). System der Polydesmiden. I. Theil. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klassen. 67: 221-482. Wien., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27925127
page(s): 413 [details]

additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1938). Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea II. Fam. Leptodesmidae, Platyrhachidae, Oxydesmidae, Gomphodesmidae. Das Tierreich. 69: 1-487. Berlin.
page(s): 66 [details]

additional source Brölemann, H. W. (1916). Essai de classification des Polydesmiens. Annales de la Société entomologique de France. 84: 523-608. Paris., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8559505
page(s): 552 [details]

additional source Carl, J. (1914). Die Diplopoden von Columbien nebst Beiträgen zur Morphologie der Stemmatoiuliden. Memoires de la Société neuchâteloise des Sciences naturelles, 5: 821-993. Neuchâtel, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48944724
page(s): 906 [details]

additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1969). Chelodesmid studies. IV. A summary of the tribe Batodesmini, with the description of a new species of Biporodesmus from northwestern Brasil. Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia. 22(25): 263-283. Sao Paulo., available online at https://doi.org/10.11606/0031-1049.1969.22p263-283
page(s): 269 [details]

additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 152; note: in tribe Batodesmini [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): 250 [details]

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Batodesmus alutaceus

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