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• Polydesmus gervaisi Lucas, H. 1840. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Myriapodes. Paris : Duméril 600 pp. [525].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (number of types not known), Australia.
• Strongylosoma nigrum Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [115].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 4659 ♀, Sutherland (as Southerland), NSW.
• Strongylosoma robustior Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [116].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 4656 ♀, Katoomba, NSW.
• Strongylosoma rubrimarginatum Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [117].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 4896 ♀, Wentworth Falls, NSW.
• Strongylosoma quaesitum Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [117].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 4889 ♀, Sutherland (as Southerland), NSW.
• Strongylosoma semoni Attems, C. 1898. Myriopoden. pp. 507-516, pl. 41 in Semon, R. Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und dem malayischen Archipel. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 8 [510].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, Burnett district, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Attems, C. 1937. Myriapoda. 3. Polydesmoidea. I. Fam. Strongylosomidae. Das Tierreich 68: i-xxii, 1-300 [282].
• Polydesmus (Strongylosoma) sagittarius Karsch, F. 1881. Zum Studium der Myriopoda Polydesmia. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 47(1): 36-49, pl. 3 [42].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 348 2♂, 1♀ (see Moritz & Fischer (1978)), Sutherland (as Southerland), NSW.
• Strongylosoma petersii Koch, L. 1865. Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriopoden. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 15: 857-892 [882].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (number of types not known), Wollongong, NSW.

General References

Attems, C. 1937. Myriapoda. 3. Polydesmoidea. I. Fam. Strongylosomidae. Das Tierreich 68: i-xxii, 1-300 [281] (Strongylosoma petersii: regarded by Attems as a synonym of Polydesmus gervaisii. Polydesmus gervaisi)

Jeekel, C.A.W. 1981. Australia Expedition 1980; legit C.A.W. Jeekel and A.M. Jeekel-Rijvers. List of collecting stations, together with general notes on the distribution of millipedes in eastern Australia and Tasmania. Verslagen en Technische Gegevens, Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie (Zoölogisch Museum), Universiteit van Amsterdam 30: 1-59 [51] (Strongylosoma petersii. Polydesmus gervaisi)

Moritz, M. & Fischer, S. 1978. Die Typen der Myriapoden-Sammlung des Zoologisches Museums Berlin. I. Diplopoda. Teil 4: Polydesmida (Paradoxosomatidea, Sphaeriodesmidea, Polydesmidea). Teil 5: Ergänzungen (Teile 1 bis 3). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 54(1): 99-160

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