original description
Cook, O. F. (1896). East African Diplopoda of the suborder Polydesmoidea, collected by Mr. William Astor Chanler. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 18: 81-111. Washington, DC.
page(s): 82 [details]
additional source
Moritz, M.; Fischer, S.-C. (1978). Die Typen der Myriapoden-Sammlung des Zoologischen Museums Berlin. I. Diplopoda. Teil 4: Polydesmida. Teil 5: Ergänzungen. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 54(1): 99-160. Berlin
page(s): 114 [details]
additional source
Cook, O. F. (1899). African Diplopoda of the family Gomphodesmidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 21(1170): 677-739. Washington
page(s): 705 [details]
additional source
Hoffman, R. L. (2005). Monograph of the Gomphodesmidae, a family of African polydesmoid millipeds. Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, 1-537
page(s): 157; note: description of species [details]
additional source
Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1938). Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea II. Fam. Leptodesmidae, Platyrhachidae, Oxydesmidae, Gomphodesmidae. Das Tierreich, 69: 1-487. Berlin
page(s): 415 [details]
source of synonymy
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): 265 [details]
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