Causey, N. B. (1954). New records and species of millipeds from the western United States and Canada. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 30(3): 221-230 page(s): 223 [details]
original descriptionCausey, N. B. (1954). New records and species of millipeds from the western United States and Canada. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 30(3): 221-230 page(s): 223 [details]
original description(ofMetaxycheir pacifica Shelley, 1990)Shelley, R. M. (1990). A new milliped of the genus Metaxycheir from the Pacific coast of Canada (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae), with remarks on the tribe Chonaphini and the western Canadian and Alaskan diplopod fauna. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 68: 2310-2322 page(s): 2311 [details]
additional sourceShelley, R. M. (1994). The Chonaphini, a biogeographically significant millipede tribe in eastern and western north America (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae). Brimleyana , 20: 111-203 page(s): 169 [details]
additional sourceHoffman, R. L. (1999). Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication.</em> 8: 1-584. page(s): 361 [details]
source of synonymyJeekel, 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 athttps://nev.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mono-05-Jeekel-1970-OCR.pdf page(s): 291 [details]
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