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<taxonomicName id="2907D3AFCBBB197C4F7ABDC6A25AFAEB" ID-CoL="CTJM" LSID="http://species-id.net/wiki/Ammodesmus_granum" authority="Cook, 1896" authorityName="Cook" authorityYear="1896" class="Diplopoda" family="Ammodesmidae" genus="Ammodesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ammodesmus granum" order="Polydesmida" pageId="4" pageNumber="5" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="granum">Ammodesmus granum Cook, 1896</taxonomicName>
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Figs 1-27
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<taxonomicName id="90F1F81A150FC00A03689E360FE0689E" class="Diplopoda" family="Ammodesmidae" genus="Ammodesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ammodesmus granum" order="Polydesmida" pageId="4" pageNumber="5" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="granum">Ammodesmus granum</taxonomicName>
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Cook, 1896
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<taxonomicName id="35730AC6E0F380F2C022F5B9ED8C921D" class="Diplopoda" family="Ammodesmidae" genus="Cenchrodesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cenchrodesmus volutus" order="Polydesmida" pageId="4" pageNumber="5" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="volutus">Cenchrodesmus volutus</taxonomicName>
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Cook, 1896 syn. n.
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<paragraph id="4C8FCD3B40CC1265F9839586C1010FB4" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Type material.</paragraph>
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Neotype ♂ (MRAC 21667), Liberia, Bong Range Forest,
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,
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, rainforest, pitfall trapping, 13.III.2005, leg. D. Flomo.
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This male specimen has been chosen as neotype, because it is in perfect condition and represents a near-topotype. A neotype of
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has also been selected to substantiate this taxon as well.
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<paragraph id="8A43B004BB0045B32D8D853C50BD80B8" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Other material.</paragraph>
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1 ♂, 2 ♀ (ZMUM), 1 ♂ (MNHN), same locality, date and collector; 6 ex. (MRAC 21966) GUINEA, Mt Nimba, Gouela forest,
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,
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, Winkler extraction, 12.X.2008; 39 ex. (MRAC 21981), including a ♀ neotype of
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<taxonomicName id="AF7F15BB87D15CD520C16B629D621DC7" class="Diplopoda" family="Ammodesmidae" genus="Cenchrodesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cenchrodesmus volutus" order="Polydesmida" pageId="4" pageNumber="5" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="volutus">Cenchrodesmus volutus</taxonomicName>
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, same locality, Winkler extraction, 15-17.X.2008;
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<pageBreakToken id="E97677D2DE62EE4B4D12E68C6577D859" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" start="start">6</pageBreakToken>
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ex. (MRAC 21991), same locality, Winkler extraction, 13-15.X.2008; 4 ex. (MRAC 22004), same locality, Winkler extraction, 17-19.X.2008; 12 ex. (MRAC 22045), same locality, Winkler extraction, 13-16.X.2008; 4 ex. (MRAC 22007),
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<pageBreakToken id="BE572CEEFCD9D2FE8650D774EF4D0792" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" start="start">Mt</pageBreakToken>
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Nimba,
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forest,
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,
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<geoCoordinate id="0843C108584F242C3CA6D7FEE21195A6" direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-8.366667">008°22'W</geoCoordinate>
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, Winkler extraction, 16-18.X.2008; 2 ex. (MRAC 22040), same locality, Winkler extraction, 14-16.X.2008; 2 ex. (MRAC 22050), Mt Nimba, Ziela forest,
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<geoCoordinate id="B8B18C5BE35ABB28513F9217824F1D46" direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="7.7166667">07°43'N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate id="3B677777666741EEAE00220435B91ADD" direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-8.35">008°21'W</geoCoordinate>
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, litter, Winkler extraction, 19.X.2008; all leg. D. VandenSpiegel; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (MRAC 22284),
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<normalizedToken id="E715C5F0F25DC4F0FB5214043FA4C657" originalValue="Taï">Tai</normalizedToken>
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forest,
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<geoCoordinate id="EE9028CB3FFA04D805FEF747B03540E6" direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="5.8333335">05°50'N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate id="BCBAD9C7F58419BD0951B1411253191F" direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-7.35">007°21'W</geoCoordinate>
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, Winkler extraction, 01-03.IX.2010; 1 ex. (MRAC 22285), same locality, Winkler extraction, 13-15.X.2010; 4 ex. (MRAC 22286), same locality, Winkler extraction, 01-03.IX.2010; 2 ex. (MRAC 22288), same locality, Winkler extraction, 01-03.IX.2010; 1 ex. (MRAC 22289), same locality, Winkler extraction, 01-03.IX.2010; 2 ex. (MRAC 22290), same locality, Winkler extraction, 13-15.X.2010, all leg. A. Kablan; 3 ex. (MRAC 22287), same locality, forest on clayey soil, Winkler extraction, 22-24.II.2010; 4 ex. (MRAC 22291),
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<normalizedToken id="E3FC615E7272CE1C0737F9197CBC960C" originalValue="Taï">Tai</normalizedToken>
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forest, Ecological Research Centre,
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<geoCoordinate id="CF7811C42906C9EBA919FC11EBEE8507" direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="5.8333335">05°50'N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate id="75FB38098DF6B07799EC92F67082A93D" direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-7.35">007°21'W</geoCoordinate>
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, secondary forest, Winkler extraction, 21-22.II.2010, all leg. M. Diarassouba & R.
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.
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<subSubSection id="250A8C736CD5AF057AF6D51D5FBF6752" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph id="783B634CAFB202777685AAB8AB5265A7" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="BC43945E05943840D26BF20AC61058CA" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Minute polydesmidans (1.4-2.0 mm in length) showing evident sexual dimorphism in tergal structure: ♂ with a transverse row of up to ten ovoid tubercles arising from posterior part of each metatergum, ♀ with nearly smooth metaterga. Gonopod with a small globular coxa reaching in length only about one-third of telopodite; the latter slender, flattened and twisted mesad in distal part, with a small sac-shaped outgrowth laterally at base.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="CE03D647E8DCB89AB0CC011F45E9FEDC" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Redescription.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="9E7763D1A8483DD8EF5B79272E052CCF" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">♂ ca 1.9 mm long; maximum width, 0.9 mm. Entire dorsal surface covered with a thin layer of secretions (= cerategument), under which the body integument is light brown to pinkish with metaterga of each segment brownish (Fig. 1). Body with 18 or 19body rings (16 or 17+1+T), shape as in Figs 1, 2 & 3, with caudal body end tapering towards a relatively small telson not concealed by paraterga (Fig. 6).</paragraph>
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Figures 1-6.
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<taxonomicName id="9EABED5A8DC6E2D160413D80F61F8A91" class="Diplopoda" family="Ammodesmidae" genus="Ammodesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ammodesmus granum" order="Polydesmida" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="granum">Ammodesmus granum</taxonomicName>
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1, 2 habitus of male, lateral view 3 habitus of female, lateral view 4-6 male, anterior, middle and caudal parts of body, respectively, lateral view. Scale bars: 100
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Head small, only partly concealed under front edge of collum (Figs 7, 11); preceding half of head densely granular, lower part smooth and densely setose (Figs 7, 8). Interantennal isthmus about as wide as antennomere 1, surmounted by a small tubercle (Fig. 8). Antennae as in Fig. 7. Collum covered with low rounded tubercles (Fig. 11), tergum 2 as usual, hypertrophied, with strongly enlarged, spatuliform paraterga concealing the head in lateral view, ventral edge with a line of granules (Fig. 3). Limbus smooth; 2nd and following metaterga with 7-10 large oblong tubercles along caudal margin (Figs 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 13). Each tubercle surmounted by a short seta (Fig. 17). Prozona rugose anteriorly, with a row of square areas along anterior edge of metatergum (Figs 13, 15), these square areas being reduced in ♀ or absent in juveniles (Fig. 3). Paraterga set at
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midheight just below a deep pit (Fig. 16, pt), continuing the highly convex outline of dorsum, their ends rounded, projecting far below venter/coxae (Fig. 14), increasingly angular towards telson (Figs 5, 6). Anteroventral edges of paraterga 3 to 15 with a notch forming a groove for paratergum 2 to hinge into during volvation (Figs 18, 19, g). Ozopore formula: 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17; ozopores opening flush on tergal surface about midheight of paraterga, most of openings concealed by preceding paraterga (Fig. 16). Telson small (Fig. 6).
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Figures 7-15.
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7 male head, ventral view 8 interantennal isthmus, ventral view 9 midbody segments, ventral view 10 caudal part of body, ventral view 11 head and collum, dorsal view 12, 13 posterior part of body, caudal and dorsal views, respectively 14 cross-section of a midbody segment, caudal view 15 tegument texture, dorsal view. Scale bars: 7, 9-14, 100
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; 8, 15, 20
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Figures 16-23.
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, male. 16 midbody paraterga, lateral view 17 metatergal tubercle, lateral view 18, 19 paratergal groove, laterocaudal and ventral views, respectively 20 first left leg, ventral view 21 modified setae of first leg 22 midbody leg, lateral view 23 last right leg, lateral view. Scale bars: 16, 100
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; 17, 23, 10
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; 18, 19, 20, 22, 20
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; 21, 5
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(g: groove, o: ozopore, pt: pit, p2: paraterga 2).
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Legs rather slender, but short, barely reaching tips of paraterga (Fig. 14); femoral and tarsal segments longest, subequal in length; claw normal, simple, very slightly
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ventrad (Fig. 22); first pair of legs in ♂ with modified setae (Figs 20, 21); last pair of ♂ legs modified, typical of
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(Fig. 23).
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<paragraph id="E1FBCDFB0EB8525997AEE796B1FFB60D" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Gonopods (Figs 24, 25) relatively simple. Coxae rather small, globular, scaly, without setae. Telopodite long and well exposed beyond small gonocoxae; apical part of the main body of telopodite (= solenomere) smooth, flattened, pointed and twisted medially, devoid of a hairy pulvillus; a small, sac-shaped, lateral outgrowth at base of telopodite.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="B5EF000E01F622FB738DB377F1BA0B08" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">♀ usually slightly larger than ♂, segments rather smooth, without metatergal tubercles. Vulva small, poorly sclerotized, edge of bursa supplied with long setae (Figs 26, 27).</paragraph>
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<caption id="01609B3ACC44586144FBF93C7278A29A" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
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<paragraph id="7155B3B6563CB2D6FF420EA7A9055980" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
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Figures 24-27.
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<taxonomicName id="1AF3752FBBC1917756E2F23ABD0DCDD0" class="Diplopoda" family="Ammodesmidae" genus="Ammodesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ammodesmus granum" order="Polydesmida" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="granum">Ammodesmus granum</taxonomicName>
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. 24 gonopods, caudal view 25 drawing of right gonopod, frontal (a) and caudal (b) views, respectively 26 anterior part of female body, ventral view 27 vulvae, ventral view. Scale bars: 24, 50
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; 25, 26, 100
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; 27, 20
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. (cx: coxae, s: solenomere, so: sac-shaped outgrowth, tl: telopodite).
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="57CFAD42DA18187638C1DD1B45AA594D" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="99312808D02CB6B7A2C5558D8AA78186" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="D74F8BBC661387C222EC0EFBDF7CFAD5" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Known from Liberia, Guinea and the Ivory Coast. It is noteworthy that at Mt Nimba this species occurs parapatrically with the new congener described below.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="817CA06E90BE4F0081D12496ECF79B26" lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="9" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" type="remarks">
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<paragraph id="144630C986DE09555DA67B8CFE9FD99C" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Remarks.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="BA8CF0FB1BFF520CBAA759CDA8C6B804" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
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<taxonomicName id="9E8A189B56D61813CDFA7E6B5C52331E" class="Diplopoda" family="Ammodesmidae" genus="Ammodesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ammodesmus granum" order="Polydesmida" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="granum">Ammodesmus granum</taxonomicName>
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is striking in being perhaps the only species in
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<taxonomicName id="CFD49CBA77C5609088084882BD3996BB" genus="Polydesmida" lsidName="Polydesmida" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" rank="genus">Polydesmida</taxonomicName>
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in which both sexes vary in the number (18 or 19) of body rings. Infraspecific variations in the number of body segments in this order are usually quite rare, always being stable per sex. Thus, in such cases males always have fewer body rings (18 or 19) than females (19 or 20), a situation not too uncommon, e.g., in
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<taxonomicName id="E34636F1E49113C4A349B9C6D0B452AB" class="Diplopoda" family="Haplodesmidae" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Polydesmida" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Haplodesmidae</taxonomicName>
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(
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<bibRefCitation id="B1EDA69BAE4A114D3C7F6191581E2D85" author="Golovatch, SI" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" pagination="1 - 53" title="Review of the millipede family Haplodesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida), with descriptions of some new or poorly-known species." volume="7" year="2009 a">Golovatch et al. 2009a</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation id="DBDFD90EA66A08AE39717D96ED93F23D" author="Golovatch, SI" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" pagination="1 - 46" title="Review of the millipede genus Eutrichodesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Haplodesmidae), with descriptions of new species." volume="12" year="2009 b">, 2009b</bibRefCitation>
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,
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<bibRefCitation id="F404E5F3382BD334030ADD1EB736F595" author="Golovatch, SI" journalOrPublisher="Tropical Natural History" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" pagination="27 - 36" title="The millipede family Haplodesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) recorded in Taiwan for the first time, with the description of a new species." volume="10" year="2010">2010</bibRefCitation>
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) and, especially,
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<taxonomicName id="79DF0CB37B084C2F57FA53DBC6361058" class="Diplopoda" family="Opisotretidae" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Polydesmida" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Opisotretidae</taxonomicName>
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(
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<bibRefCitation id="063D1FF0337AE4783CC3C951767EEB73" author="Golovatch, SI" journalOrPublisher="Entomologia Basiliensia" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" pagination="15 - 48" title="On the first Polydesmidae, Opisotretidae and Fuhrmannodesmidae from Bhutan (Diplopoda, Polydesmida)." volume="12" year="1988">Golovatch 1988</bibRefCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="4FE10C1BB6E76E564E3C31D26423BADE" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">
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<pageBreakToken id="ED226617E7C4DEACFB8BFE0CCB79C454" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" start="start">Neotype</pageBreakToken>
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designations for both
|
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<taxonomicName id="F7792EF5BEE800816C8DCE3268EC4EEB" class="Diplopoda" family="Ammodesmidae" genus="Ammodesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Ammodesmus granum" order="Polydesmida" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="granum">Ammodesmus granum</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName id="F60C39BE171B57DC19B775AB2D7CD874" class="Diplopoda" family="Ammodesmidae" genus="Cenchrodesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cenchrodesmus volutus" order="Polydesmida" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="volutus">Cenchrodesmus volutus</taxonomicName>
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are necessary, because the original types can be presumed as being lost. A special search undertaken among
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<normalizedToken id="C417721E9790970C7A04153123141997" originalValue="Cook’s">Cook's</normalizedToken>
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diplopod collections, currently housed in the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., had failed already before the description of
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<taxonomicName id="B420E059AFD3B0F25A689C665CFBADB3" class="Diplopoda" family="Ammodesmidae" genus="Elassystremma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Elassystremma pongwe" order="Polydesmida" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pongwe">Elassystremma pongwe</taxonomicName>
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by
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<bibRefCitation id="E88DF4819C2318A86EB48AB6EAF54270" author="Hoffman, RL" journalOrPublisher="Revue de Zoologie africaine" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" pagination="227 - 233" title="An ammodesmid millipede from Tanzania (Polydesmida)." volume="95" year="1981">Hoffman and Howell (1981)</bibRefCitation>
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.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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