original description
Brandt, J. F. (1841). Note supplémentaire sur les espèces qui composent le genre Polydesmus, suivie d' une caractéristique de deux espèces nouvelles. Bulletin Scientifique publié par l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg, 9(1): 9-11. St. Petersburg, available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44271052
page(s): 10 [details]
additional source
Gervais, P. (1847). Myriapodes. In: Walckenaer, Hist. natur. des Insectes. Aptères IV, 4: 1-623. Paris, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32961491
page(s): 114 [details]
additional source
Brandt, J. F. (1841). Recueil de mémoires relatifs a l'ordre des Insectes Myriapodes, et lus à l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. 1-189. St. Petersburg
page(s): 140 [details]
additional source
Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1940). Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea III. Fam. Polydesmidae, Vanhoeffeniidae, Cryptodesmidae, Oniscodesmidae, Sphaerotrichopidae, Periodontodesmidae, Rhachidesmidae, Macellolophidae, Pandirodesmidae. Das Tierreich, 70: 1-577. Berlin
page(s): 493 [details]
source of synonymy
Golovatch, S. I.; Hoffman, R. L. (2000). On the diplopod taxa and type material of J. F. Brandt, with some new descriptions and identities (Diplopoda). Fragmenta faunistica, Supplement, 43: 229-249. Warszawa
page(s): 237 [details]
source of synonymy
Saussure, H. L. F. de; Zehntner, L. (1902). Myriapodes de Madagascar. In: Grandidier, A. (Ed.),. <em>Histoire physique naturelle et politique de Madagascar.</em> 27(53): 1-356. Paris., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1227021
page(s): 93; note: Synonymized with Polydesmus (Pterodesmus) sakalava; synonymy ignored by later workers [details]
source of synonymy
Golovatch, S. I.; Hoffman, R. L. (1989). Identity of <em>Polydesmus hamatus</em> Brandt 1841, a Malagasy milliped (Diplopoda Polydesmida Dalodesmidae). <em>Tropical Zoology.</em> 2(2): 159-164., available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03946975.1989.10539436
page(s): 363 [details]
new combination reference
Golovatch, S. I.; Hoffman, R. L. (1989). Identity of <em>Polydesmus hamatus</em> Brandt 1841, a Malagasy milliped (Diplopoda Polydesmida Dalodesmidae). <em>Tropical Zoology.</em> 2(2): 159-164., available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03946975.1989.10539436
page(s): 160; note: Dalodesmus hamatus, nec Polydesmus hamatus Verhoeff, 1897, nec P. hamatus Loksa, 1960 [details]
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