original description
(of Platyrhacus acanthopleurus Hoffman, 1960) Hoffman, R. L. (1960). A fourth contribution to the knowledge of neotropical platyrhacid millipeds (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 111(3424): 17-31
page(s): 22 [details]
new combination reference
Recuero, E.; Sánchez-Vialas, A. (2018). A new distinctive species of Barydesmus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Platyrhacidae) from Ecuador, with an annotated bibliographical checklist of the American Platyrhacidae. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4482(2): 245-273., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4482.2.2
page(s): p. 251; note: Assigned to the genus Barydesmus [details] Available for editors 
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