Marine Species Traits - Spirobolus spiculifer Pocock, 1893

Traits name details

Spirobolus spiculifer Pocock, 1893

AphiaID

940807 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:940807)

Classification

Status

uncertain (incertae sedis)

Rank

Species

Parent

Spirobolus Brandt, 1833

Original name

Spirobolus spiculifer Pocock, 1893

Environment

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

Original description

Pocock, R. I. (1893). Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. LV. On the Myriapoda of Burma. Pt. 3. Report upon the Julidae, Chordeumidae and Polyzonidae collected by Sig. L. Fea and Mr. E. W. Oates. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, serie 2, 13: 386-406. Genova, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29845589
page(s): 397 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Spirobolus spiculifer Pocock, 1893. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=940807 on 2026-09-01

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Spirobolus spiculifer Pocock, 1893. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=940807 on 2026-09-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-01-19 09:46:04Z

created

Sierwald, Petra

2024-10-12 09:52:20Z

changed

Decker, Peter

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Sources (5)

original description Pocock, R. I. (1893). Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. LV. On the Myriapoda of Burma. Pt. 3. Report upon the Julidae, Chordeumidae and Polyzonidae collected by Sig. L. Fea and Mr. E. W. Oates. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, serie 2, 13: 386-406. Genova, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29845589
page(s): 397 [details]

additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1936). Diplopoda of India. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 11(4): 133-323. Calcutta
page(s): 313 [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): 356 [details]

additional source Likhitrakarn, N.; Jirapatrasilp, P.; Golovatch, S. I.; Panha, S. (2017). A checklist of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Myanmar, with an updated list of Leonardo Fea's collecting localities. Zootaxa. 4350(1): 1-46., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4350.1.1
page(s): 15 [details]

status source Likhitrakarn, N.; Jirapatrasilp, P.; Golovatch, S. I.; Panha, S. (2017). A checklist of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Myanmar, with an updated list of Leonardo Fea's collecting localities. Zootaxa. 4350(1): 1-46., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4350.1.1
page(s): 15; note: Since this species was described from an immature female holotype (Pocock 1893), likely housed in the London Museum, no generic assignment is possible pending the collection and study of a male topo...

Since this species was described from an immature female holotype (Pocock 1893), likely housed in the London Museum, no generic assignment is possible pending the collection and study of a male topotype.

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