Marine Species Traits - Monenchodesmus chilensis Silvestri, 1903

Traits taxon details

Monenchodesmus chilensis Silvestri, 1903

Monenchodesmus chilensis

AphiaID

937409 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:937409)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Monenchodesmus Silvestri, 1903

Parent

Monenchodesmus Silvestri, 1903

Original name

Monenchodesmus chilensis Silvestri, 1903

Environment

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

Original description

Silvestri, F. (1903). Note Diplopodologiche. Bollettino del musei di zoologia e di anatomia comparata della Reale Università di Torino, 18(433): 1-21. Torino, available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53519246
page(s): 7 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Monenchodesmus chilensis Silvestri, 1903. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=937409 on 2026-07-13

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Monenchodesmus chilensis Silvestri, 1903. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=937409 on 2026-07-13

Taxonomic edit history

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2017-01-19 09:46:04Z

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original description Silvestri, F. (1903). Note Diplopodologiche. Bollettino del musei di zoologia e di anatomia comparata della Reale Università di Torino, 18(433): 1-21. Torino, available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53519246
page(s): 7 [details]

additional source Silvestri, F. (1905). Myriapoda. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere, Supplementum, 6: 715-772. Jena, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14182300
page(s): 716 [details]

additional source Mesibov, R. (2017). Annotated catalogue of South American Dalodesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Zootaxa. 4338(3): 507-525., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4338.3.6
page(s): 516 [details]

additional source Parra-Gómez, A. (2022). Catálogo de los milpiés (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) de Chile. REVISTA CHILENA DE ENTOMOLOGÍA. 48(3): 451-504., available online at https://doi.org/10.35249/rche.48.3.22.02
page(s): 455, 468, Fig. 3 [details] Available for editors

additional source Silvestri, F. (1905). Nuovi diplopodi del Chile. Revista chilena de Historia natural. 9(5): 225-236., available online at https://rchn.biologiachile.cl/pdfs/1905/5/Silvestri_1905.05.pdf
page(s): 231 [details]

additional source Porter, C. E. (1912). Bibliografia Chilena razonada de Miriópodos y Onicóforos. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural. 52-62., available online at https://rchn.biologiachile.cl/pdfs/1917/1-2/Porter_1917.01-02a.pdf
page(s): 56 [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): 339 [details]

additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1914). Die indo-australischen Myriopoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 80A(4): 1-398. Berlin., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13260451
page(s): 245; note: designated type species of Monenchodesmus [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): 183 [details]

additional source Demange, J.-M.; Silva, F. (1976). Contribution á la connaissance des espèces originaires du Chili par F. Silvestri en 1902. Bollettino del Laboratorio di entomologia agraria "Filippo Silvestri", 33: 34-43
page(s): 37 [details]

additional source Moritz, M.; Fischer, S.-C. (1978). Die Typen der Myriapoden-Sammlung des Zoologischen Museums Berlin. I. Diplopoda. Teil 6: Nachtrag zu den Teilen 1 bis 4. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 54(2): 333-343. Berlin, available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnz.19780540207
page(s): 336 [details]

Definitions

From editor or global species database

Monenchodesmus chilensis