Inodesmus

Inodesmus
Inodesmus steeli
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Polydesmida
Family:	Haplodesmidae
Genus:	Inodesmus Cook, 1896
Species
See text
Synonyms
AgathodesmusSilvestri, 1910 AtapogonusCarl, 1926

Inodesmus is a genus of millipedes in the family Haplodesmidae, first described by Orator F. Cook in 1896. The type species is I. jamaicensis . This genus exhibits a disjunct distribution, with species found in Colombia, Jamaica, New Caledonia, and the Australian states of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. ^{[1] [2]}

Taxonomy

Assignment to the family Haplodesmidae is currently uncertain. Agathodesmus, described by Silvestri in 1910, ^[3] and Atopogonus, described by J. Carl in 1926, ^[4] are regarded as junior synonyms of Inodesmus. ^[1]

Species

The genus Inodesmus consists of the following accepted species: ^[1]

• Inodesmus adelphus (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus aenigmaticus (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus agnus (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus anici (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus baccatus (Carl, 1926)
• Inodesmus bonang (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus bucculentus (Jeekel, 1986)
• Inodesmus carorum (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus chandleri (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus gayundah (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus hahnensis (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus jamaicensis Cook, 1896
• Inodesmus johnsi (Mesibov, 2009)
• Inodesmus kerensis (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus kirrama (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus millaa (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus morwellensis (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus parapholeus (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus quintanus (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus sagma (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus steeli (Silvestri, 1910)
• Inodesmus summus (Mesibov, 2013)
• Inodesmus urbanus (Romero-Rincon & Douch, 2024)
• Inodesmus yuccabinensis Mesibov, 2013)

References

1. Romero-Rincon, Juan; Alvear, Santiago (2024-04-15). "On the identity of the enigmatic millipede genus Inodesmus Cook, 1896 (Polydesmida: Haplodesmidae)". Zootaxa. 5437 (3): 433–440. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5437.3.8. ISSN   1175-5334.
2. Romero-Rincon, Juan; Alvear, Santiago; Martínez-Torres, Daniela; Robles-Piñeros, Jairo (2025-01-06). "First record of the millipede family Haplodesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) from Colombia: two new species of Inodesmus Cook, 1896 from the Northern Andes". European Journal of Taxonomy. 976: 33–46 [33–34]. doi:10.5852/ejt.2025.976.2773. ISSN   2118-9773.
3. Filippo Silvestri (1910). "Descrizioni preliminari di nuovi generi di Diplopodi. I. Polydesmoidea". Zoologischer Anzeiger (in Latin). 35: 357-364 [362]. ISSN   0044-5231. Wikidata   Q119081814.
4. Johann Carl (1926). "Diplopoden von Neu-Caledonien und den Loyalty-Inseln". Nova Caledonia. Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. Recherches scientifiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie et aux iles Loyalty. A. Zoologie (in German). 4: 369-462 [371]. Wikidata   Q72932476.

External links

• Occurrence data for Inodesmus from GBIF