original description
Saussure, H. L. F. de (1859). Note sur la famille des Polydesmides, principalment au point de vue des espèces américaines. Linnaea entomologica, 13: 318-327
page(s): 323; note: as a subgenus of Polydesmus [details]
original description
(of Goyazodesmus Schubart, 1952) Schubart, O. (1952). "Leptodesmidae" Brasileiras. I: Três gêneros novos, "Goyazodesmus", "Rupidesmus", e "Thaumatodesmus". Revista brasileira de biologia, 12(4): 447-454. Rio de Janeiro
page(s): 447 [details]
additional source
Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1898). System der Polydesmiden. I. Theil. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klassen, 67: 221-482. Wien, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27925127
page(s): 369, 371; note: with a synonymy list for genus Leptodesmus [details]
additional source
Pocock, R. I. (1910). Chilopoda and Diplopoda. In: Biologia centrali-americana, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America, edited by F. Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin, 1-217, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/576427
page(s): 162; note: subsequent designation of type species [details]
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