Desmonus

Short description: Genus of millipedes

Desmonus

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Myriapoda
Class:  | Diplopoda
Order:  | Polydesmida
Family:  | Sphaeriodesmidae
Genus:  | Desmonus
Cook, 1898

Desmonus is a genus of flat-backed millipedes in the family Sphaeriodesmidae. There are about 10 described species in Desmonus.[1][2][3][4]

## Species

These 10 species belong to the genus Desmonus:

* Desmonus acclivus (Loomis, 1966)
* Desmonus atophus (Chamberlin & Mulaik, 1941)
* Desmonus austrus Causey, 1958
* Desmonus conjunctus Loomis, 1959
* Desmonus crassus Loomis, 1959
* Desmonus curtus (Loomis, 1943)
* Desmonus distinctus Loomis, 1959
* Desmonus earlei Cook, 1898
* Desmonus inordinatus Causey, 1958
* Desmonus pudicus (Bollman, 1888)

## References

1. ↑ "Desmonus Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=569399. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. ↑ "Desmonus". https://www.gbif.org/species/1020142. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. ↑ "Desmonus genus Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/1041799. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
4. ↑ Shelley, R. M.. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. https://ag.tennessee.edu/EPP/Pages/Nadiplochilo/Nadiplochilo.aspx. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

## Further reading

* Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. 8. ISBN 9781884549120.
* Golovatch, Sergei I.; Kime, R. Desmond (2009). "Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review". Soil Organisms 81: 565–597. http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/soilorganisms/volume_81_3/24_golovatch.pdf. Retrieved 2018-05-02.

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