original description(ofPolydesmorhachis atratus Pocock, 1897)Pocock, R. I. (1897). New genera and species of millipedes of the family Platyrhachidae from the Indo- and Austro-Malayan subregions, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, 20: 427-446 page(s): 446 [details]
additional 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): 281; note: Polydesmorhachis atratus (recte: -ta) [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): 80 [details]
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