Marine Species Traits - Cylindrodesmus Pocock, 1889

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Cylindrodesmus Pocock, 1889

Cylindrodesmus hirsutus

AphiaID

891373 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:891373)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Cylindrodesmus hirsutus Pocock, 1889 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Haplodesminae Cook, 1895

Synonymised names

Inodesmus Loomis, 1934 nec Cook, 1896 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

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Species Cylindrodesmus hirsutus Pocock, 1889
Species Cylindrodesmus telnovorum Golovatch, 2018
Species Cylindrodesmus villosus Pocock, 1898

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Pocock, R. I. (1888). On the Arachnida, Myriapoda and Crustacea of the Christmas Island. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 556
page(s): 558 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Cylindrodesmus Pocock, 1889. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=891373 on 2026-09-23

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Cylindrodesmus Pocock, 1889. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=891373 on 2026-09-23

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 Pocock, R. I. (1888). On the Arachnida, Myriapoda and Crustacea of the Christmas Island. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 556
page(s): 558 [details]

original description (of Inodesmus Loomis, 1934 nec Cook, 1896) Loomis, H. F. (1934). Millipeds of the West Indies and Guiana collectet by the Allison V. Armour Expedition in 1932. Smithsonian miscellaneous Collections, 89(14): 1-69. Washington, available online at https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/smithsonianmisce891935smit
page(s): 64; note: misidentification according to Jeekel, see discussion in Hoffman [details]

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