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Eurydesmus De Saussure, 1860
891562 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:891562)
accepted
Genus
Eurydesmus angulatus De Saussure, 1860 (type by monotypy)
Aneurydesmus Schubart, 1956 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Chelodesmus Cook, 1895 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Pseudoeurydesmella Schubart, 1951 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Pseudoeurydesmus Schubart, 1944 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
- Species Eurydesmus acuminatus (Schubart, 1953)
- Species Eurydesmus acutatus Schubart, 1951
- Species Eurydesmus aguirrei (Schubart, 1945)
- Species Eurydesmus alcatrazensis (Schubart, 1945)
- Species Eurydesmus angulatus De Saussure, 1860
- Species Eurydesmus angustus Schubart, 1945
- Species Eurydesmus anticipatus Schubart, 1954
- Species Eurydesmus argutus Schubart, 1956
- Species Eurydesmus armatus Schubart, 1945
- Species Eurydesmus assimilis Schubart, 1945
- Species Eurydesmus baguassuensis (Schubart, 1944)
- Species Eurydesmus bellus (Schubart, 1951)
- Species Eurydesmus brolemanni Hoffman, 1971
- Species Eurydesmus herteli (Schubart, 1954)
- Species Eurydesmus langei (Schubart, 1954)
- Species Eurydesmus lomatus (Schubart, 1955)
- Species Eurydesmus urbanae (Schubart, 1960)
- Species Eurydesmus zebratus (Gervais, 1836)
- Species Eurydesmus aciculatus Schubart, 1956 accepted as Eurydesmus armatus aciculatus Schubart, 1956 (reduced to subspecies rank)
- Species Eurydesmus agrestis Schubart, 1945 accepted as Eurydesmus angulatus De Saussure, 1860 (junior subjective synonym)
- Species Eurydesmus alipioi Schubart, 1945 accepted as Peltoeurydesmus alipioi (Schubart, 1945) accepted as Peltoeurydesmus biconicus (Attems, 1898)
- Species Eurydesmus caffrarius Porat, 1872 accepted as Ulodesmus caffrarius (Porat, 1872)
- Species Eurydesmus compactilis Gerstäcker, 1873 accepted as Merodesmus compactilis (Gerstäcker, 1873)
- Species Eurydesmus compactilus Gerstaecker, 1873 accepted as Merodesmus compactilis (Gerstäcker, 1873)
- Species Eurydesmus contortus Pocock, 1896 accepted as Sigodesmus contortus (Pocock, 1896)
- Species Eurydesmus diminutus Attems, 1899 accepted as Astrodesmus diminutus (Attems, 1899)
- Species Eurydesmus falcatus Karsch, 1881 accepted as Tymbodesmus falcatus (Karsch, 1881)
- Species Eurydesmus innotatus (Silvestri, 1896) accepted as Sigodesmus innotatus (Silvestri, 1896)
- Species Eurydesmus laxus Gerstäcker, 1873 accepted as Astrodesmus laxus (Gerstäcker, 1873)
- Species Eurydesmus luridus Karsch, 1881 accepted as Clastrotylus luridus (Karsch, 1881) accepted as Euryzonus luridus (Karsch, 1881)
- Species Eurydesmus makrotrichus Attems, 1901 accepted as Astrodesmus macrotrichus (Attems, 1901) (old combination)
- Species Eurydesmus mossambicus (Peters, 1855) accepted as Aulodesmus mossambicus (Peters, 1855)
- Species Eurydesmus oxygonus Peters, 1862 accepted as Aulodesmus oxygonus (Peters, 1862)
- Species Eurydesmus ruidus (Verhoeff & Schubart, 1945) accepted as Eurydesmus zebratus (Gervais, 1836) (junior subjective synonym)
- Species Eurydesmus ruspolii (Silvestri, 1896) accepted as Sigodesmus ruspolii (Silvestri, 1896)
- Species Eurydesmus wabonicus Attems, 1899 accepted as Astrodesmus wabonicus (Attems, 1899)
masculine
Saussure, H. L. F. de. (1860). Essai d'une faune des Myriapodes du Mexique avec la description de quelques espèces des autres parties de l'Amérique. <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physiques et d'Histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 15(2): 135 pages, starts page 259, page numbering uncertain., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10918573
page(s): 335 [details]
page(s): 335 [details]
Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Eurydesmus De Saussure, 1860. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php/1zqjmv'%22()%7B%7D%3Cx%3E:1zqjmv%3B9/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=891562 on 2025-07-12
original description
Saussure, H. L. F. de. (1860). Essai d'une faune des Myriapodes du Mexique avec la description de quelques espèces des autres parties de l'Amérique. <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physiques et d'Histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 15(2): 135 pages, starts page 259, page numbering uncertain., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10918573
page(s): 335 [details]
original description (of Aneurydesmus Schubart, 1956) Schubart, O. (1956). "Leptodesmidae" Brasileiras. V: Um novo "Eurydesmus" do litoral do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Diplopoda, Proterospermophora). Revista brasileira de biologia, 16(4): 453-459. Rio de Janeiro
page(s): 456 [details]
original description (of Chelodesmus Cook, 1895) Cook, O. F.; Collins, G. N. (1895). The Craspedosomatidae of North America. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 9: 1-100. New York, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35260543
page(s): 4 [details]
original description (of Pseudoeurydesmella Schubart, 1951) Schubart, O. (1951). Sôbre alguns Leptodesmidae do Distrito federal do Brasil e do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Zoologia, 101: 1-15
page(s): 12 [details]
original description (of Pseudoeurydesmus Schubart, 1944) Schubart, O. (1944). Os Diplopodos de Pirassununga. Acta Zoologica Lilloana, 2: 321-440. Tucuman
page(s): 361 [details]
additional source Trajano, E.; Golovatch, S. I.; Geoffroy, J.-J.; Pinto da Rocha, R.; Fontanetti, C. S. (2000). Synopsis of Brazilian cave-dwelling millipedes (Diplopoda). Papéis avulsos do Departamento de zoologia, 41(18): 259-287. Sao Paulo
page(s): 267 [details]
additional source de Saussure, H.L.; Humbert, A. (1872). Études sur les Myriapodes. <em>M. Milne Edwards (ed.). Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l' Amérique centrale. Recherches Zoologiques.</em> partie 6, sect. 2, 1-211., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51060078
page(s): 55 [details]
additional source Bouzan, R. S.; Iniesta, L. F. M.; Pena-Barbosa, J. P. P.; Brescovit, A. D. (2018). Annotated checklist of the millipede family Chelodesmidae Cook, 1895 from São Paulo state, Brazil (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). <em>Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia.</em> 58: 1-19., available online at https://doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.06
page(s): 2-4 [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): 262 [details]
additional source Brölemann, H. W. (1902). Myriapodes du Musée de Sao Paulo. Revista do Museu Paulista, 5: 35-237, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10803013
page(s): 92; note: Eurydesmus Saussure (nec Attems) [details]
additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1899). System der Polydesmiden. II. Theil. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klassen, 68: 251-436, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35890675
page(s): 264; note: subgeneric status [details]
additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1931). Die Familie Leptodesmidae und andere Polydesmiden. Zoologica (Stuttgart), (79): 1-150. Stuttgart
page(s): 53 [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): 104 [details]
additional source Carl, J. (1903). Revision amerikanischer Polydesmiden. Revue suisse de Zoologie, 11(3): 543-562. Genève
page(s): 544 [details]
additional source 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): 85; note: discusses differences to Astrodesmus (Gomphodesmidae). [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1950). Systematic notes on some Central American millipeds. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 63: 69-71
page(s): 186; note: proposed as a senior synonym for Chelodesmus Cook, 1895 [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1971). Chelodesmid studies V. Some new, redefined, and resurrected Brasilian genera. Arquivos de Zoologia, 20: 225-277. Sao Paulo
page(s): 250 [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 151; note: in tribe Chelodesmini [details]
additional source Schubart, O. (1945). Os Proterospermophora do Distrito Federal (Myriapoda, Diplopoda). Arquivos do Museu Nacional, 38: 1-156. Rio de Janeiro
page(s): 78; note: key to species [details]
additional source Schubart, O. (1956). "Leptodesmidae" Brasileiras. V: Um novo "Eurydesmus" do litoral do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Diplopoda, Proterospermophora). Revista brasileira de biologia, 16(4): 453-459. Rio de Janeiro
page(s): 465 [details]
additional source Brölemann, H. W. (1916). Essai de classification des Polydesmiens. <em>Annales de la Société entomologique de France.</em> 84: 523-608. Paris., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8559505
page(s): 552 [details]
page(s): 335 [details]
original description (of Aneurydesmus Schubart, 1956) Schubart, O. (1956). "Leptodesmidae" Brasileiras. V: Um novo "Eurydesmus" do litoral do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Diplopoda, Proterospermophora). Revista brasileira de biologia, 16(4): 453-459. Rio de Janeiro
page(s): 456 [details]
original description (of Chelodesmus Cook, 1895) Cook, O. F.; Collins, G. N. (1895). The Craspedosomatidae of North America. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 9: 1-100. New York, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35260543
page(s): 4 [details]
original description (of Pseudoeurydesmella Schubart, 1951) Schubart, O. (1951). Sôbre alguns Leptodesmidae do Distrito federal do Brasil e do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Zoologia, 101: 1-15
page(s): 12 [details]
original description (of Pseudoeurydesmus Schubart, 1944) Schubart, O. (1944). Os Diplopodos de Pirassununga. Acta Zoologica Lilloana, 2: 321-440. Tucuman
page(s): 361 [details]
additional source Trajano, E.; Golovatch, S. I.; Geoffroy, J.-J.; Pinto da Rocha, R.; Fontanetti, C. S. (2000). Synopsis of Brazilian cave-dwelling millipedes (Diplopoda). Papéis avulsos do Departamento de zoologia, 41(18): 259-287. Sao Paulo
page(s): 267 [details]
additional source de Saussure, H.L.; Humbert, A. (1872). Études sur les Myriapodes. <em>M. Milne Edwards (ed.). Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l' Amérique centrale. Recherches Zoologiques.</em> partie 6, sect. 2, 1-211., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51060078
page(s): 55 [details]
additional source Bouzan, R. S.; Iniesta, L. F. M.; Pena-Barbosa, J. P. P.; Brescovit, A. D. (2018). Annotated checklist of the millipede family Chelodesmidae Cook, 1895 from São Paulo state, Brazil (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). <em>Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia.</em> 58: 1-19., available online at https://doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.06
page(s): 2-4 [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): 262 [details]
additional source Brölemann, H. W. (1902). Myriapodes du Musée de Sao Paulo. Revista do Museu Paulista, 5: 35-237, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10803013
page(s): 92; note: Eurydesmus Saussure (nec Attems) [details]
additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1899). System der Polydesmiden. II. Theil. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klassen, 68: 251-436, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35890675
page(s): 264; note: subgeneric status [details]
additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1931). Die Familie Leptodesmidae und andere Polydesmiden. Zoologica (Stuttgart), (79): 1-150. Stuttgart
page(s): 53 [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): 104 [details]
additional source Carl, J. (1903). Revision amerikanischer Polydesmiden. Revue suisse de Zoologie, 11(3): 543-562. Genève
page(s): 544 [details]
additional source 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): 85; note: discusses differences to Astrodesmus (Gomphodesmidae). [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1950). Systematic notes on some Central American millipeds. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 63: 69-71
page(s): 186; note: proposed as a senior synonym for Chelodesmus Cook, 1895 [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1971). Chelodesmid studies V. Some new, redefined, and resurrected Brasilian genera. Arquivos de Zoologia, 20: 225-277. Sao Paulo
page(s): 250 [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 151; note: in tribe Chelodesmini [details]
additional source Schubart, O. (1945). Os Proterospermophora do Distrito Federal (Myriapoda, Diplopoda). Arquivos do Museu Nacional, 38: 1-156. Rio de Janeiro
page(s): 78; note: key to species [details]
additional source Schubart, O. (1956). "Leptodesmidae" Brasileiras. V: Um novo "Eurydesmus" do litoral do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Diplopoda, Proterospermophora). Revista brasileira de biologia, 16(4): 453-459. Rio de Janeiro
page(s): 465 [details]
additional source Brölemann, H. W. (1916). Essai de classification des Polydesmiens. <em>Annales de la Société entomologique de France.</em> 84: 523-608. Paris., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8559505
page(s): 552 [details]
