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Onychelus obustus Cook, 1904
938767 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:938767)
accepted
Species
Gosichelus jaegeri (Chamberlin, 1947) · unaccepted
Gosichelus medolus (Chamberlin, 1941) · unaccepted
Hiltonius thebanus Chamberlin, 1941 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Onychelus jaegeri Chamberlin, 1947 · unaccepted
Onychelus medolus Chamberlin, 1941 · unaccepted
Onychelus thebanus (Chamberlin, 1941) · unaccepted
Cook, O. F. (1904). Myriapoda of northwestern North America. <em>Harriman Expedition 8 Insects.</em> Pt. 1: 47–82.
page(s): 68 [details]
page(s): 68 [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. Onychelus obustus Cook, 1904. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/rest/AphiaChildrenByAphiaID/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=938767 on 2026-10-10
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Cook, O. F. (1904). Myriapoda of northwestern North America. <em>Harriman Expedition 8 Insects.</em> Pt. 1: 47–82.
page(s): 68 [details]
original description (of Hiltonius thebanus Chamberlin, 1941) Chamberlin, R. V. (1941). New American Millipeds. <em>Bulletin of the University of Utah 31(11), Biological Series.</em> 6(4): 1-39. Salt Lake City.
page(s): 8 [details]
original description (of Onychelus medolus Chamberlin, 1941) Chamberlin, R. V. (1941). New American Millipeds. <em>Bulletin of the University of Utah 31(11), Biological Series.</em> 6(4): 1-39. Salt Lake City.
page(s): 13 [details]
original description (of Onychelus jaegeri 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): 50 [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): 65 [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L.; Orcutt, B. S. (1960). A synopsis of the Atopetholidae, a family of spiroboloid millipeds. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 111(3426): 95-166. Washington D.C., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.111-3426.95
page(s): 142 [details]
additional source Shelley, R. M. (1998). The milliped genus Onychelus Cook (Spirobolida: Atopetholidae: Onychelinae). Myriapodologica, 5(11): 111-117. Martinsville [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): 201 [details]
page(s): 68 [details]
original description (of Hiltonius thebanus Chamberlin, 1941) Chamberlin, R. V. (1941). New American Millipeds. <em>Bulletin of the University of Utah 31(11), Biological Series.</em> 6(4): 1-39. Salt Lake City.
page(s): 8 [details]
original description (of Onychelus medolus Chamberlin, 1941) Chamberlin, R. V. (1941). New American Millipeds. <em>Bulletin of the University of Utah 31(11), Biological Series.</em> 6(4): 1-39. Salt Lake City.
page(s): 13 [details]
original description (of Onychelus jaegeri 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): 50 [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): 65 [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L.; Orcutt, B. S. (1960). A synopsis of the Atopetholidae, a family of spiroboloid millipeds. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 111(3426): 95-166. Washington D.C., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.111-3426.95
page(s): 142 [details]
additional source Shelley, R. M. (1998). The milliped genus Onychelus Cook (Spirobolida: Atopetholidae: Onychelinae). Myriapodologica, 5(11): 111-117. Martinsville [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): 201 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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