original description
Verhoeff, K. W. (1895). Aphorismen zur Biologie, Morphologie, Gattungs- und Art-Systematik der Diplopoden. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 18(476-478): 203-244. Jena, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9728546
page(s): 222 [details]
basis of record
Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 173; note: listed as either a subgenus or synonym of Polydesmus [details]
additional source
Kime, R. D.; Enghoff, H. (2011). Atlas of European Millipedes (Class Diplopoda) Volume 1 Orders Polyxenida, Glomerida, Platydesmida, Siphonocryptida, Polyzoniida, Callipodida, Polydesmida. <em>Fauna Europaea Evertebrata.</em> 3: 1-282; June 2011.
page(s): 68; note:
This genus was separated from Polydesmus by Djursvoll (1998) and consists on the whole of Atlantic species with 20 segments, several of which are relatively small forms less than a centimetre in len...
This genus was separated from Polydesmus by Djursvoll (1998) and consists on the whole of Atlantic species with 20 segments, several of which are relatively small forms less than a centimetre in length. See Enghoff & Golovatch (2003).
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