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Brachoria initialis Chamberlin, 1939
937209 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:937209)
accepted
Species
Brachoria benderi Causey, 1950 · unaccepted
Brachoria brachypus Chamberlin, 1947 · unaccepted
Chamberlin, R. V. (1939). On some diplopods of the family Fontariidae. <em>Bulletin of the University of Utah, Biological Series.</em> 30(2): 1-19. Salt Lake City., available online at https://collections.lib.utah.edu/dl_files/90/6b/906b74cdc183c1c1784aacbd40560fc560b79820.pdf
page(s): 3 [details]
page(s): 3 [details]
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. Brachoria initialis Chamberlin, 1939. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/rest/AphiaRecordsByTaxonRankID/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=937209 on 2026-09-17
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Chamberlin, R. V. (1939). On some diplopods of the family Fontariidae. <em>Bulletin of the University of Utah, Biological Series.</em> 30(2): 1-19. Salt Lake City., available online at https://collections.lib.utah.edu/dl_files/90/6b/906b74cdc183c1c1784aacbd40560fc560b79820.pdf
page(s): 3 [details]
original description (of Brachoria benderi Causey, 1950) Causey, N. B. (1950). On four new polydesmoid millipeds. Entomological News, 61(7): 193-198
page(s): 193 [details]
original description (of Brachoria brachypus Chamberlin, 1947) Chamberlin, R. V. (1947). Some records and descriptions of diplopods chiefly in the collection of the academy. Proceedings of the Academy of natural Science of Philadelphia, 99: 21-58. Philadelphia
page(s): 28 [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1999). Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication.</em> 8: 1-584., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63590410
page(s): 311 [details]
source of synonymy 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): 251 [details]
status source Keeton, W. T. (1959). A revision of the milliped genus Brachoria (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 109(3411): 1-58. Washington D.C., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.109-3411.1
page(s): 11; note: Species reduced to subspecies: Brachoria ochra initialis [details]
page(s): 3 [details]
original description (of Brachoria benderi Causey, 1950) Causey, N. B. (1950). On four new polydesmoid millipeds. Entomological News, 61(7): 193-198
page(s): 193 [details]
original description (of Brachoria brachypus Chamberlin, 1947) Chamberlin, R. V. (1947). Some records and descriptions of diplopods chiefly in the collection of the academy. Proceedings of the Academy of natural Science of Philadelphia, 99: 21-58. Philadelphia
page(s): 28 [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1999). Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication.</em> 8: 1-584., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63590410
page(s): 311 [details]
source of synonymy 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): 251 [details]
status source Keeton, W. T. (1959). A revision of the milliped genus Brachoria (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 109(3411): 1-58. Washington D.C., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.109-3411.1
page(s): 11; note: Species reduced to subspecies: Brachoria ochra initialis [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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