original description
Verhoeff, K. W. (1924). Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 34. Myriapoda: Diplopoda. <em>Arkiv för Zoologi.</em> 16(5): 1-142. Stockholm.
page(s): 57 [details]
taxonomy 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): 29; note: subsequent designation of type species: Sphaerotherium weberii [details]
taxonomy source
Schubart, O. (1958). Diplopoda II: Oniscomorpha. South African Animal Life, 5: 41-108. Stockholm
page(s): 42; note: Schubart's publication associated the first species with genus Tetraconosoma, according to Jeekel, 1971 [details]
basis of record
Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 62 [details]
additional source
Wesener, T. (2016). The Giant Pill-Millipedes, order Sphaerotheriida –
An annotated species catalogue
with morphological atlas
and list of apomorphies. <em>Bonn zoological Bulletin Supplementum.</em> 63: 1-107., available online at https://zoologicalbulletin.de/bzb_volumes/bzm_63/bzm_63.pdf
page(s): 8 [details]
source of synonymy
VandenSpiegel, D.; Golovatch, S. I.; Hamer, M. L. (2002). Revision of some of the oldest species in the millipede genus Sphaerotherium Brandt, 1833 (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Sphaerotheriidae),with new synonymies. African Invertebrates, 143-181. Pietermaritzburg
page(s): 145 [details]
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