Marine Species Traits - Brachydesmus stygivagus Verhoeff, 1899

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Brachydesmus stygivagus Verhoeff, 1899

Brachydesmus stygivagus

AphiaID

938066 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:938066)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Brachydesmus Heller, 1858

Original name

Brachydesmus stygivagus Verhoeff, 1899

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Subspecies Brachydesmus stygivagus medius (Attems, 1951)
Subspecies Brachydesmus stygivagus stygivagus Verhoeff, 1899
Subspecies Brachydesmus stygivagus unciger (Attems, 1951)

Environment

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

Original description

Verhoeff, K. W. (1899). Beiträge zur Kenntniss paläarktischer Myriopoden. IX. Aufsatz: Zur Systematik, Phylogenie und vergleichenden Morphologie der Juliden und über einige andere Diplopoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 65(1): 183-220. Berlin, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15115004
page(s): 226 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Brachydesmus stygivagus Verhoeff, 1899. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=938066 on 2025-11-10

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Brachydesmus stygivagus Verhoeff, 1899. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=938066 on 2025-11-10

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original description Verhoeff, K. W. (1899). Beiträge zur Kenntniss paläarktischer Myriopoden. IX. Aufsatz: Zur Systematik, Phylogenie und vergleichenden Morphologie der Juliden und über einige andere Diplopoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 65(1): 183-220. Berlin, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15115004
page(s): 226 [details]

additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1940). Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea III. Fam. Polydesmidae, Vanhoeffeniidae, Cryptodesmidae, Oniscodesmidae, Sphaerotrichopidae, Periodontodesmidae, Rhachidesmidae, Macellolophidae, Pandirodesmidae. Das Tierreich, 70: 1-577. Berlin
page(s): 102 [details]

additional source Ceuca, T. (1992). Quelques aspects sur la faunistique l'écologie et la zoogeographie des diplopodes de la Région Balkanique. Bericht des naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck, Supplementum, 411-429. Innsbruck
page(s): 415 [details]

additional source Moritz, M.; Fischer, S.-C. (1978). Die Typen der Myriapoden-Sammlung des Zoologischen Museums Berlin. I. Diplopoda. Teil 4: Polydesmida. Teil 5: Ergänzungen. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 54(1): 99-160. Berlin
page(s): 150 [details]

additional source Makarov, S. E. (1997). On two little-known millipedes (Polydesmidae: Diplopoda) from Yugoslavia. Archives of Biological Sciences, 49(1-2): 9P-10P. Beograd
page(s): 9-10P, figs. 1-3; note: description of species [details]

additional source Kime, R. D.; Enghoff, H. (2011). Atlas of European Millipedes (Class Diplopoda) Volume 1 Orders Polyxenida, Glomerida, Platydesmida, Siphonocryptida, Polyzoniida, Callipodida, Polydesmida. <em>Fauna Europaea Evertebrata.</em> 3: 1-282; June 2011.
page(s): 58; note: Cavernicole. A variable taxon with five described subspecies and which merits further attention when more specimens become available (Makarov, 1997). [details]

source of synonymy Strasser, K. (1971). Catalogus Faunae jugoslaviae. III/5. Diplopoda. Ljubljana: Academia Scientarum et Artium Slovenica Vol. 3., 3-50. Ljubljana
page(s): 17 [details]

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Brachydesmus stygivagus