An annotated list of the millipede (Diplopoda) species described by Johann Carl Author Hollier, John Muséum d’histoire naturelle, C. P. 6434, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Switzerland. E-mail: john. hollier @ ville-ge. ch john.hollier@ville-ge.ch Author Stöckli, Eduard Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Augustinergasse 2, CH- 4051 Basel, Switzerland. E-mail: eduard. stoeckli @ bs. ch eduard.stoeckli@bs.ch Author Wesener, Thomas Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, D- 53113 Bonn, Germany. E-mail: T. Wesener @ leibniz-zfmk. de esener@leibniz-zfmk.de Author Mesibov, Robert West Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia 7315. E-mail: robert. mesibov @ gmail. com robert.mesibov@gmail.com Author Decker, Peter Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz, Department of Soil Zoology, Am Museum 1, D- 02826 Görlitz, Germany. E-mail: peter. decker @ senckenberg. de peter.decker@senckenberg.de Author Sierwald, Petra Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA. E-mail: psierwald @ fmnh. org psierwald@fmnh.org text Revue suisse de Zoologie 2020 2020-06-04 127 1 183 240 http://dx.doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0015 journal article 10.35929/RSZ.0015 0035-418 5743454 tamilum Carl, 1932: 434-436 , figs 16-18 [ Polydrepanum ]. Süd-Indien: “Madras”, J. R. Henderson leg. (Brit. Museum). Three ♂ and three ♀ . The MHNG collection contains two specimens in alcohol (MHNG-ARTO-14392). The specimens, each have a pin running the length of the body, are in a small vial and there are gonopods and legs in a smaller vial. The label in the large vial housing the two smaller ones has “ Polydrepanum tamilum Carl , ♂ ♀ cotypes, ♂ type gonop., pattes 1, 2, 7, Madras Henderson leg.” written on it, indicating that the specimens are syntypes . Jeekel (1980a) says that the other syntypes “are obviously preserved” in the BMNH , and there are syntpes in their collection; for some reason he referred to the species as P. tamulum . Polydrepanum tamilum is the type species of the genus Polydrepanum Carl, 1932 by monotypy ( Jeekel, 1971 ). Polydrepanum tamilum Carl, 1932 , Paradoxosomatidae