Desmonus

Genus of millipedes

Desmonus

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
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[edit]

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[edit]

1. ^ "Desmonus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. ^ "Desmonus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. ^ "Desmonus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
4. ^ Shelley, R. M. "The myriapods, the world's leggiest animals". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

## Further reading[edit]

* Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. Vol. 8\. ISBN 9781884549120.
* Golovatch, Sergei I.; Kime, R. Desmond (2009). "Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review" (PDF). Soil Organisms. 81: 565–597. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2018-05-02.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q6448633
* BugGuide: 1041799
* CoL: 7NVWV
* GBIF: 1020142
* iNaturalist: 171397
* IRMNG: 1307739
* ITIS: 569399
* NCBI: 2099804
* WoRMS: 891423

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