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MilliBase name details

Paradesmus De Saussure, 1859

AphiaID

893770 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:893770)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (preoccupied by Paradesmus Corda, 1835, Animalia?)

Accepted Name

Orthomorpha Bollman, 1893

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Polydesmus beaumontii Le Guillou, 1841 accepted as Orthomorpha beaumontii (Le Guillou, 1841) (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Orthomorphini Brölemann, 1916

Direct children (18)

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Species Paradesmus albonanus Latzel, 1895 accepted as Ophiodesmus albonanus (Latzel, 1895)
Species Paradesmus aubryi (Lucas, 1858) accepted as Neocordyloporus aubryi (Lucas, 1858)
Species Paradesmus beaumontii (Leguillou, 1841) accepted as Orthomorpha beaumontii (Le Guillou, 1841)
Species Paradesmus crucifer Pocock, 1889 accepted as Orthomorpha crucifer (Pocock, 1889)
Species Paradesmus dasys Bollman, 1888 accepted as Oxidus gracilis (C. L. Koch, 1847)
Species Paradesmus dorsicornis Porat, 1894 accepted as Diaphorodesmus dorsicornis (Porat, 1894)
Species Paradesmus erythropus (Lucas, 1858) accepted as Anisodesmus erythropus (Lucas, 1858)
Species Paradesmus evides Bollman, 1887 accepted as Auturus evides (Bollman, 1887) accepted as Euryurus evides (Bollman, 1887)
Species Paradesmus flavocarinatus Daday, 1889 accepted as Orthomorpha coarctata (Saussure, 1860) (junior subjective synonym)
Species Paradesmus gracilis (C. L. Koch, 1847) accepted as Oxidus gracilis (C. L. Koch, 1847)
Species Paradesmus karschi Pocock, 1889 accepted as Orthomorpha karschi (Pocock, 1889)
Species Paradesmus liberiensis Peters, 1864 accepted as Tylodesmus liberiensis (Peters, 1864)
Species Paradesmus poeyi Bollman, 1887 accepted as Orthomorpha coarctata (Saussure, 1860)
Species Paradesmus sanguinicornis Porat, 1892 accepted as Orthomorpha sanguinicornis (Porat, 1892)
Species Paradesmus spectabilis Karsch, 1881 accepted as Anoplodesmus spectabilis (Karsch, 1881)
Species Paradesmus testi (Bollman, 1888) accepted as Polydesmus inconstans Latzel, 1884
Species Paradesmus thysanopus Cook & Collins, 1893 accepted as Cnemodesmus thysanopus (Cook & Collins, 1893)
Species Paradesmus vicarius Karsch, 1881 accepted as Orthomorpha coarctata (Saussure, 1860)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Saussure, H. L. F. de (1858). Note sur la famille des Polydesmides (americaines). Diagnoses de quelques Myriapodes nouveaux de l'ordre des Chilopodes. Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée, 2. Sér., 10
page(s): 325 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2024). MilliBase. Paradesmus De Saussure, 1859. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=893770 on 2025-03-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-12-21 12:20:58Z

created

Sierwald, Petra

2017-09-01 12:54:16Z

changed

Spelda, Jörg

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Sources (3)

original description Saussure, H. L. F. de (1858). Note sur la famille des Polydesmides (americaines). Diagnoses de quelques Myriapodes nouveaux de l'ordre des Chilopodes. Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée, 2. Sér., 10
page(s): 325 [details]

additional source Jeekel, 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 at https://nev.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mono-05-Jeekel-1970-OCR.pdf
page(s): 229; note: preoccupied by Paradesmus Corda, 1835 (Algae; in: Carro, J.de (ed): 123, pl. 4, fig. 47); replaced by Orthomorpha Bollman, 1893. Jeekel's discussion of type species [details]

source of synonymy Jeekel, C. A. W. (1963). Diplopoda of Guiana (1-5). Studies on the fauna of Suriname and other Guyanas, 4: 1-157. The Hague
page(s): 21 [details]