Alessandro Minelli

Alessandro Minelli, Italian myriapodologist.

Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Ugo Bassi 58B, I 35131 Padova, Italy.

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

Strasser, K. & Minelli, A. 1984.: Elenco dei diplopodi d'Italia. A checklist of Italian Diplopods. Societa Veneziana di Scienze Naturali Lavori 9(2): 193–212. Reference page.

Bonato, L., Foddai, D. & Minelli, A. 2002 A new mecistocephalid centipede from Ryukyu Islands and a revisitation of ‘Taiwanella’ (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Mecistocephalidae). Zootaxa 86: 1–12. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.

Foddai, D., Bonato, L., Pereira, L.A. & Minelli, A. 2003. Phylogeny and systematics of the Arrupinae (Chilopoda Geophilomorpha Mecistocephalidae) with the description of a new dwarfed species. Journal of natural history 37(10): 1247–1267. DOI: 10.1080/00222930210121672 Reference page.

Bonato, L., Foddai, D., Minelli, A. & Shelley, R.M. 2004. The centipede order Geophilomorpha in the Hawaiian Islands (Chilopoda). Bernice P. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 78: 13–32. Reference page.

Bonato, L., Barber, A. & Minelli, A. 2006. The European centipedes hitherto referred to Eurygeophilus, Mesogeophilus, and Chalandea (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha): taxonomy, distribution, and geographical variation in segment number. Journal of Natural History 40: 415–438. Reference page.
Pereira, L.A., Uliana, M. & Minelli, A. 2006. New species and new records of the genus Ribautia Brölemann, 1909 (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae) from South America. Zootaxa 1106: 45–68. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.
Lewis, J.G.E. & Minelli, A. & Shelley, R.M. 2006. Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on scolopendrid centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae). Zootaxa 1155: 35–40. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.

Bonato, L., Pereira, L.A. & Minelli, A. 2007. Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the centipede genera Chomatobius, Ityphilus, Hapleurytion, Plateurytion, and Steneurytion (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha). Zootaxa 1485: 1–12. Reference page.

Bonato, L., Zapparoli, M. & Minelli, A. 2008. Morphology, taxonomy and distribution of Diphyonyx gen. n., a lineage of geophilid centipedes with unusually shaped claws (Chilopoda: Geophilidae). European Journal of Entomology 105: 343–354. Reference page.

Bonato, L. & Minelli, A. 2010. The geophilomorph centipedes of the Seychelles (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha). Phelsuma, 18: 9–38. PDF Reference page.

Minelli, A. 2011. Class Chilopoda, Class Symphyla and Class Pauropoda. Pp 157–158 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . (PDF) Reference page.
Bonato, L., Iorio, E. & Minelli, A. 2011. The centipede genus Clinopodes C.L. Koch, 1847 (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae): reassessment of species diversity and distribution, with a new species from the Maritime Alps (France). Zoosystema 33(2): 175–205. DOI: 10.5252/z2011n2a3 Reference page.

Bonato, L., Dányi, L., Socci, A.A. & Minelli, A. 2012. Species diversity of Strigamia Gray, 1843 (Chilopoda: Linotaeniidae): a preliminary synthesis. Zootaxa 3593: 1–39. Preview Reference page.

Simaiakis, S.M., Zapparoli, M., Minelli, A. & Bonato, L. 2013. The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species. Zootaxa 3647(2): 279–306. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3 Reference page.

Minelli, A., Sket, B. & de Jong, Y. 2014. Fauna Europaea: Annelida – Hirudinea, incl. Acanthobdellea and Branchiobdellea. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4015. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e4015 Reference page.
Bonato, L. & Minelli, A. 2010. Chilopoda Geophilomorpha of Europe: a revised list of species, with taxonomic and nomenclatorial notes. Zootaxa 3770(1): 1–136. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3770.1.1 Reference page.