original description(ofSphaerotherium walesianum Karsch, 1881)Karsch, F. (1881). Zur Formenlehre der pentazonen Myriopoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 47(1): 19-35. Berlin page(s): 31 [details]
taxonomy sourceWesener, T. (2016). The Giant Pill-Millipedes, order Sphaerotheriida –
An annotated species catalogue
with morphological atlas
and list of apomorphies. <em>Bonn zoological Bulletin Supplementum.</em> 63: 1-107., available online athttps://zoologicalbulletin.de/bzb_volumes/bzm_63/bzm_63.pdf[details]
basis of recordWesener, T. (2016). The Giant Pill-Millipedes, order Sphaerotheriida –
An annotated species catalogue
with morphological atlas
and list of apomorphies. <em>Bonn zoological Bulletin Supplementum.</em> 63: 1-107., available online athttps://zoologicalbulletin.de/bzb_volumes/bzm_63/bzm_63.pdf page(s): 26 [details]
additional sourceWesener, T. (2014). A new phylogenetic analysis of the
Sphaerotheriida (Diplopoda) with a revision of the Australian
giant pill millipedes. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 28 (2): 196–213., available online athttps://doi.org/10.1071/IS13048[details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality