original description
Silvestri, F. (1923). Notizia della presenza del genere Synxenus (Myriapoda Diplopoda) in Catalogna e descrizione di quattro specie. Treballs del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, 4(5): 5-15
page(s): 8 [details]
original description
(of Schindalomonotinae Verhoeff, 1939) Verhoeff, K. W. (1939). Diplopoden der Insel Mauritius und ihre zoogeographische Bedeutung. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften, 73: 37-96. Jena
page(s): 82 [details]
original description
(of Synxeninae Silvestri, 1925) Silvestri, F. (1923). Notizia della presenza del genere Synxenus (Myriapoda Diplopoda) in Catalogna e descrizione di quattro specie. Treballs del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, 4(5): 5-15
page(s): 8 [details]
taxonomy source
Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 53 [details]
taxonomy source
Minelli, A. (2015). Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2. <em>Brill, Leiden; Boston.</em> 482 pp.
page(s): 447; note: listed as a valid family in Table 16.1 [details]
additional source
Short, M.; Vahtera, V. (2017). Phylogenetic relationships of millipedes in the subclass Penicillata (Diplopoda) with a key to the genera. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 51(41-42): 2443-2461., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2017.1380241 [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). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 156: 85-103., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.156.2211 [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): 22 [details]
From editor or global species database
Identification Species in this family [Synxenidae] have 15–17 pairs of legs, in contrast to species in the remaining two families [Lophoproctidae & Polyxenidae] with 13 pairs (11 pairs in one species). [details]