Genus Rhinotus Cook, 1896

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• Rhinotus Cook, O.F. 1896. [title unknown]. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 9: 2 [2] ["The name Rhinotus was first proposed by Cook, 1896. A type species was designated as “R. africanus (Siphonotus africanus, Cook)”. A diagnosis of the genus was not given, and a description of Siphonotus africanus Cook had not yet been published. The proposal of Rhinotus Cook, 1896, therefore, is not valid. The description of Siphonotus africanus, cited above, appeared October 1896, but in that paper the name Rhinotus is not mentioned. The only time that Cook mentioned Rhinotus again in connection with the specific name africanus was in the Brandtia paper, cited above. Unfortunately, the date of publication of Brandtia is unknown, and it is uncertain whether it was published before or after the description of S. africanus had appeared. Its date is fixed here preliminarily as 31 December 1896. If it turns out that the cited page of Brandtia appeared before October1896, i.e. before the appearance of the description of S. africanus, the name Rhinotus Cook is unavailable. In that case the authorship of Rhinotus would go to Pocock, 1906 (in: Gardiner (ed.), The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes 2: 1045)" (Jeekel 1971: 43)].

  Type species:

   Siphonotus africanus Cook, 1896 by monotypy (Sierra Leone).

  Secondary source:

   Jeekel, C.A.W. 1971. Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: a list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging 5: i-xii, 1-412 [Date published 15 February 1971] [43].
• Orsilochus Attems, C. 1900. Dr Brauer's Myriopoden-Ausbeute auf den Seychellen im Jahre 1895. Zoologische Jahrbücher 13: 133-171 pls xv-xvii [166] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Orsilochus crassiceps Attems, 1900 by monotypy (Seychelles).

  Secondary source:

   Jeekel, C.A.W. 1971. Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: a list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging 5: i-xii, 1-412 [Date published 15 February 1971] [41].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carl, J. 1912. Die Diplopodenfauna von Celebes. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 20: 73-206 2 Taf. 3 figs [126]

Distribution

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Queensland, Western Australia

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IBRA

Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

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