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MilliBase name details

Desmonidae Cook, 1898

AphiaID

1005477 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1005477)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded rank

Accepted name

Desmonini Cook, 1898

Rank

Family

Parent

Polydesmida

Environment

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

Original description

Cook, O. F. (1898). American oniscoid Diplopoda of the order Merocheta. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 21(1154): 451-468. Washington D.C., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.21-1154.451
page(s): 463 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Decker, P.; Sierwald, P.; Spelda, J.; Barber, A.D.; Antic, D.; Bouzan, R.; Enghoff, H.; Hennen, D.; Iniesta, L. F. M.; Means, J.; Nguyen, A. D.; Simmons, E.; Wesener, T. (2026). MilliBase. Desmonidae Cook, 1898. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/rest/AphiaChildrenByAphiaID/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1005477 on 2026-09-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-06-28 07:56:51Z

created

Spelda, Jörg

2023-07-11 18:23:44Z

changed

Sierwald, Petra

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Sources (3)

original description Cook, O. F. (1898). American oniscoid Diplopoda of the order Merocheta. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 21(1154): 451-468. Washington D.C., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.21-1154.451
page(s): 463 [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): 259 [details]

status source Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 162 [details]