original description
Chamberlin, R. V. (1943). On nine North American polydesmoid millipeds. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 56: 35-40
page(s): 35 [details]
original description
(of Phreatodesmus cooki Loomis, 1960) Loomis, H. F. (1960). Millipeds of the order Polydesmida from the western states and Baja California. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 33: 57-68
page(s): 64 [details]
additional source
Chamberlin, R. V. (1952). Some American Polydesmid Millipeds in the collection of the Chicago Museum of Natural History. <em>Annals of the Entomological Society of America.</em> 45(4): 553-584.
page(s): 558 [details] Available for editors 
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): 356 [details]
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