Genus Dynesmus Chamberlin, 1941 accepted as Barydesmus Cook, 1896(The type species of the genus, Dynesmus iquitus, was changed to Barydesmus iquitus. Therefore, the genus Dynesmus must be a junior synonym of Barydemus)
Pocock, R. I. (1895). Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. LXVII. The Myriopoda of Burma, Pt. IV. Report upon the Polydesmoidea collected by Sig. L. Fea, Mr. E. W. Oates and others. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, serie 2.</em> 14: 787-834. Genova., available online athttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7940827 page(s): 788; note: as Platyrrhacidae [details]
Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2024). MilliBase. Platyrhacidae Pocock, 1895. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=888763 on 2024-12-24
original descriptionPocock, R. I. (1895). Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. LXVII. The Myriopoda of Burma, Pt. IV. Report upon the Polydesmoidea collected by Sig. L. Fea, Mr. E. W. Oates and others. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, serie 2.</em> 14: 787-834. Genova., available online athttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7940827 page(s): 788; note: as Platyrrhacidae [details]
taxonomy sourceMinelli, A. (2015). Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2. <em>Brill, Leiden; Boston.</em> 482 pp. page(s): 448; note: listed as a valid family in Table 16.1 [details]
additional sourceJeekel, C. A. W. (2007). An annotated bibliographical catalogue of the Indo-Australian Platyrhacidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). <em>Myriapod memoranda.</em> 10: 49-101. page(s): 52; note: corrected spelling of family group name to Platyrhacidae [details]
status sourceJeekel, 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 athttps://nev.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mono-05-Jeekel-1970-OCR.pdf page(s): 280 [details]