original description
Cook, O. F. (1896). East African Diplopoda of the suborder Polydesmoidea, collected by Mr. William Astor Chanler. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 18: 81-111. Washington, DC.
page(s): 99 [details]
original description
(of Oxydesmus nanus Attems, 1927) Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1927). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Expedition R. Grauer in nach Zentralafrika, Dezember 1909 bis Februar 1911. Diplopoda. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 41: 51-90
page(s): 66 [details]
additional source
Moritz, M.; Fischer, S.-C. (1978). Die Typen der Myriapoden-Sammlung des Zoologischen Museums Berlin. I. Diplopoda. Teil 4: Polydesmida. Teil 5: Ergänzungen. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 54(1): 99-160. Berlin
page(s): 125 [details]
additional source
Shelley, R. M. (1999). Centipedes and millipedes with emphasis on North American fauna. Kansas School Naturalist, 45(3): 1-15. Emporia
page(s): 67 [details]
additional source
Cook, O. F. (1896). Summary of new Liberian Polydesmoidea. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 48: 257-267.
page(s): 264 [details]
source of synonymy
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): 273 [details]
new combination reference
Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1938). Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea II. Fam. Leptodesmidae, Platyrhachidae, Oxydesmidae, Gomphodesmidae. Das Tierreich, 69: 1-487. Berlin
page(s): 356; note: Metaphoricus parallelus [details]
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