Marine Species Traits - Priodesmus Cook, 1895

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Priodesmus Cook, 1895

Priodesmus acus

AphiaID

892392 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:892392)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Priodesmus acus Cook, 1895 (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Priodesmini Hoffman, 1977

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Species Priodesmus acus Cook, 1895
Species Priodesmus papillosus Attems, 1931
Species Priodesmus coralloides Jeekel, 1963 accepted as Stenonia coralloides (Jeekel, 1963) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Priodesmus elegans (Gray, 1832) accepted as Stenonia elegans (Gray, 1832) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Priodesmus haematopterus Jeekel, 1963 accepted as Stenonia haematoptera (Jeekel, 1963) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Cook, O. F. (1896). Priodesmus, a new genus of Diplopoda from Surinam. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 18 (1895): 53-57, available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.18-1037.53
page(s): 53 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Priodesmus Cook, 1895. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=892392 on 2026-05-07

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Priodesmus Cook, 1895. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=892392 on 2026-05-07

Taxonomic edit history

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action

2016-12-20 08:40:13Z

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Sierwald, Petra

2017-09-01 12:54:16Z

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Spelda, Jörg

2023-03-13 15:14:07Z

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Means, Jackson

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original description Cook, O. F. (1896). Priodesmus, a new genus of Diplopoda from Surinam. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 18 (1895): 53-57, available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.18-1037.53
page(s): 53 [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 Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1899). System der Polydesmiden. II. Theil. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klassen, 68: 251-436, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35890675
page(s): 429 [details]

additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1931). Die Familie Leptodesmidae und andere Polydesmiden. Zoologica (Stuttgart). (79): 1-150. Stuttgart.
page(s): 40 [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): 69 [details]

additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1977). Chelodesmid studies. X. A synopsis of the tribe Priodesmini (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Revue suisse de zoologie, 84(2): 349-359. Genève, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.91394
page(s): 351 [details]

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

additional source Jeekel, C. A. W. (1963). Diplopoda of Guiana (1-5). Studies on the fauna of Suriname and other Guyanas, 4: 1-157. The Hague
page(s): 101 [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): 554 [details]

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Priodesmus acus

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