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MilliBase taxon details

Gypsodesmus Cook, 1896

AphiaID

891661 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:891661)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Gypsodesmus pruinosus Cook, 1896 (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Lampodesmini Hoffman, 1973

Synonymised names

Villiersiellina Schubart, 1955 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

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Species Gypsodesmus girardi Demange, 1993
Species Gypsodesmus pruinosus Cook, 1896

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Cook, O. F. (1896). A new diplopod fauna in Liberia. American Naturalist, 30: 413-420, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41431949, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/276402
page(s): 415 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Gypsodesmus Cook, 1896. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=891661 on 2026-05-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2016-12-20 08:40:13Z

created

Sierwald, Petra

2017-09-01 12:54:16Z

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Spelda, Jörg

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original description Cook, O. F. (1896). A new diplopod fauna in Liberia. American Naturalist, 30: 413-420, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41431949, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/276402
page(s): 415 [details]

original description (of Villiersiellina Schubart, 1955) Schubart, O. (1955). Proterospermophora oder Polydesmoidea von Französisch West-Afrika (Diplopoda). Bulletin de l'Institut française d'Afrique Noire, série A, 17(2): 377-443
page(s): 428 [details]

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