The millipede family Ammodesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) in western Africa

Abstract. Ammodesmidae are represented in western Africa by two species of a single genus, Ammodesmus Cook, 1896 (= Cenchrodesmus Cook, 1896, syn. n.). The type-species Ammodesmus granum Cook, 1896 (= Cenchrodesmus volutus Cook, 1896, syn. n.) is redescribed, based on neotype selection, as well as o...

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Autores principales: VandenSpiegel, Didier, Golovatch, Sergei
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3487632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23129978
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.221.3739
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description Abstract. Ammodesmidae are represented in western Africa by two species of a single genus, Ammodesmus Cook, 1896 (= Cenchrodesmus Cook, 1896, syn. n.). The type-species Ammodesmus granum Cook, 1896 (= Cenchrodesmus volutus Cook, 1896, syn. n.) is redescribed, based on neotype selection, as well as on additional samples, often containing numerous specimens, from Liberia, Guinea and the Ivory Coast. A new species is described from Mount Nimba, Guinea: Ammodesmus nimba sp. n.
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spelling pubmed-34876322012-11-05 The millipede family Ammodesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) in western Africa VandenSpiegel, Didier Golovatch, Sergei Zookeys Article Abstract. Ammodesmidae are represented in western Africa by two species of a single genus, Ammodesmus Cook, 1896 (= Cenchrodesmus Cook, 1896, syn. n.). The type-species Ammodesmus granum Cook, 1896 (= Cenchrodesmus volutus Cook, 1896, syn. n.) is redescribed, based on neotype selection, as well as on additional samples, often containing numerous specimens, from Liberia, Guinea and the Ivory Coast. A new species is described from Mount Nimba, Guinea: Ammodesmus nimba sp. n. Pensoft Publishers 2012-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3487632/ /pubmed/23129978 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.221.3739 Text en Didier VandenSpiegel, Sergei Golovatch http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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