Marine Species Traits - Propolyxenus Silvestri, 1948

Traits taxon details

Propolyxenus Silvestri, 1948

AphiaID

892410 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:892410)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Propolyxenus aegeus Silvestri, 1948 (type by original designation)

Parent

Polyxeninae Lucas, 1840

Direct children (8)

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Species Propolyxenus aegeus Silvestri, 1948
Species Propolyxenus argentifer (Verhoeff, 1921)
Species Propolyxenus australis Short & Huynh, 2010
Species Propolyxenus crassisetosus Marquet & Condé, 1950
Species Propolyxenus forsteri Condé, 1951
Species Propolyxenus lawrencei Condé, 1949
Species Propolyxenus patagonicus (Silvestri, 1903)
Species Propolyxenus squamatus Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, Uys & Geoffroy, 2011

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Silvestri, F. (1948). Tavola sinottica dei generi dei Diplopoda Penicillata. Bollettino del Laboratorio di entomologia agraria "Filippo Silvestri", 8: 214-220
page(s): 215 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Propolyxenus Silvestri, 1948. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=892410 on 2026-08-23

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Propolyxenus Silvestri, 1948. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=892410 on 2026-08-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-12-20 08:40:13Z

created

Sierwald, Petra

2017-09-01 12:54:16Z

changed

Spelda, Jörg

2024-07-14 17:14:16Z

changed

Hennen, Derek

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original description Silvestri, F. (1948). Tavola sinottica dei generi dei Diplopoda Penicillata. Bollettino del Laboratorio di entomologia agraria "Filippo Silvestri", 8: 214-220
page(s): 215 [details]

additional source Nguyen Duy - Jacquemin, M.; Uys, C.; Geoffroy, J.-J. (2011). Two remarkable new species of Penicillata (Diplopoda, Polyxenida) from Table Mountain National Park (Cape Town, South Africa). ZooKeys. 156: 85-103., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.156.2211 [details]

additional source Short, M.; Huynh, C. (2010). Revision of the genus Propolyxenus Silvestri with description of a new species. International Journal of Myriapodology. 3(1): 1-17. Leiden., available online at https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/ijm/3/1/article-p1.xml
note: redescription of genus [details]

additional source Short, M.; Vahtera, V.; Wesener, T.; Golovatch, S. I. (2020). The millipede family Polyxenidae (Diplopoda, Polyxenida) in the faunas of the Crimean Peninsula and Caucasus, with notes on other European Polyxenidae. Zootaxa. 4772(2): 306-332., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4772.2.4
page(s): 313 [details]

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