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MilliBase name details

Megastrephon xanthinum (Newport, 1844)

AphiaID

1030000 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1030000)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Eurygyrus xanthinus (Newport, 1844)

Rank

Species

Parent

Megastrephon Cook, 1895 accepted as Eurygyrus C. L. Koch, 1847

Original name

Platops xanthina Newport, 1844

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Original description

(of Platops xanthina Newport, 1844) Newport, G. (1844). A list of the species of Myriapoda, order Chilognatha, contained in the cabinets of the British Museum, with description of a new genus and thirty-two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 13: 263-270. London
page(s): 267 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Megastrephon xanthinum (Newport, 1844). Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1030000 on 2025-05-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-08-24 09:16:51Z

created

Spelda, Jörg

2021-08-28 09:49:43Z

changed

Decker, Peter

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Sources (4)

original description (of Platops xanthina Newport, 1844) Newport, G. (1844). A list of the species of Myriapoda, order Chilognatha, contained in the cabinets of the British Museum, with description of a new genus and thirty-two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 13: 263-270. London
page(s): 267 [details]

additional source Cook, O. F. (1895). On the generic names Strigamia, Linotaenia and Scolioplanes. American Naturalist, 29
page(s): 1019 [details]

source of synonymy Stoev, P.; Sierwald, P.; Billey, A. (2008). An annotated world catalogue of the millipede order Callipodida (Arthropoda: Diplopoda). Zootaxa, 1706: 1-50
page(s): 28 [details]

source of synonymy Hoffman, R. L.; Lohmander, H. (1964). The Diplopoda of Turkey. Part I+II. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut, 62: 101-151. Hamburg
page(s): 142 [details]