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MilliBase taxon details

Zoosphaerium Pocock, 1895

AphiaID

892941 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:892941)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Sphaerotherium neptunus Butler, 1872 accepted as Zoosphaerium neptunus (Butler, 1872) (type by original designation)

Parent

Arthrosphaeridae Jeekel, 1974

Synonymised names

Globotherium Brölemann, 1922 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Heligmasoma Chamberlin, 1921 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

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Environment

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

Grammatical gender

neuter

Original description

Pocock, R. I. (1895). Descriptions of new genera of Zephroniidae, with brief preliminary Diagnoses of some new Species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, 16: 409-415
page(s): 410 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Spelda, J. (2021). MilliBase. Zoosphaerium Pocock, 1895. Accessed at: http://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=892941 on 2023-03-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-12-20 08:40:13Z

created

Sierwald, Petra

2017-09-01 12:54:16Z

changed

Spelda, Jörg

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Sources (10)
Links (4)

original description Pocock, R. I. (1895). Descriptions of new genera of Zephroniidae, with brief preliminary Diagnoses of some new Species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, 16: 409-415
page(s): 410 [details]

original description (of Heligmasoma Chamberlin, 1921) Chamberlin, R. V. (1921). V.—New Chilopoda and Diplopoda from the East Indian region. Journal of Natural History Series 9. 7(37): 50-87., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222932108632489
page(s): 57 [details]

original description (of Globotherium Brölemann, 1922) Brölemann, H. W. (1922). Liste des myriapodes de l'Academie Malagache de Tananarive. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 47: 223-278. Paris., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3043315
page(s): 230 [details]

taxonomy source Wesener, T.; Sierwald, P. (2005). New giant pill-millipede species from the littoral forest of Madagascar (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zoosphaerium). Zootaxa, 1097: 1-60 [details]

taxonomy source Wesener, T. (2016). The Giant Pill-Millipedes, order Sphaerotheriida – An annotated species catalogue with morphological atlas and list of apomorphies. Bonn zoological Bulletin Supplementum. 63: 1-107. [details]

taxonomy source Wesener, T. (2009). Unexplored richness: discovery of 31 new species of Giant Pill-Millipedes endemic to Madagascar, with a special emphasis on microendemism (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida). Zootaxa. 2097: 1-134. [details]

taxonomy source Sagorny, C.; Wesener, T. (2017). Two new giant pill-millipede species of the genus Zoosphaerium endemic to the Bemanevika area in northern Madagascar (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Arthrosphaeridae). Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. , available online at https://doi.org/10.15468/ZJTRG4 [details]

taxonomy source Wesener, T.; Sagorny, C. (2021). Seven new giant pill-millipede species and numerous new records of the genus Zoosphaerium from Madagascar (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Arthrosphaeridae). European Journal of Taxonomy. 758: 1-48., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.758.1423
page(s): 1 [details]

redescription Wesener, T.; Wägele, J. W. (2008). The giant pill-millipedes of Madagascar: revision of the genus Zoosphaerium (Myriapoda, Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida). Zoosystema, 30(1): 5-85
page(s): 5 [details]

new combination reference Jeekel, C. A. W. (1999). A new pill-millipede from Madagascar, with a catalogue of the species hithero described from the island (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida). Myriapod memoranda, 1: 5-21. Amsterdam [details]

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