Procyliosoma is a genus of pill millipede found in Australia and New Zealand. Formerly classified in the family Sphaerotheriidae, in 2009 Procyliosoma was reclassified as the only genus in the family Procyliosomatidae.[1]
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| Procyliosoma delacyi | |
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| Family: | Procyliosomatidae Wesener & VandenSpiegel, 2009
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| Genus: | Procyliosoma Silvestri, 1917
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| Procyliosoma leae Silvestri, 1917
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Species
edit- Procyliosoma andersoni (Verhoeff, 1928) – New South Wales
- Procyliosoma aurivillii Silvestri, 1917 – Queensland
- Procyliosoma castaneum (Verhoeff, 1924) – Queensland
- Procyliosoma delacyi (White, 1859) – New Zealand
- Procyliosoma dorrigense (Verhoeff, 1928) – New South Wales
- Procyliosoma leae Silvestri, 1917 – Tasmania
- Procyliosoma leiosomum Hutton, 1877 – New Zealand
- Procyliosoma tasmanicum Silvestri, 1917 – Tasmania
- Procyliosoma tuberculatum Silvestri, 1917 – New Zealand
- Procyliosoma walesianum (Karsch, 1881) – New South Wales
Further reading
edit- Beverley A. Holloway (1956). "Revision of the New Zealand pill millipedes (Oniscomorpha, Sphaerotheridae)". Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 84 (2): 431–446.
- Bob Mesibov. "Sphaerotheriida: Procyliosoma". Millipedes of Australia. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
References
edit- ^ Wesener, Thomas; VandenSpiegel, Didier (2009). "A first phylogenetic analysis of Giant Pill-Millipedes (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida), a new model Gondwanan taxon, with special emphasis on island gigantism". Cladistics. 25 (6): 545–573. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00267.x. S2CID 86041765.
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