Sigmoria pendulata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Polydesmida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Myriapoda Classis: Diplopoda Subclassis: Chilognatha Infraclassis: Helminthomorpha Superordo: Merocheta Ordo: Polydesmida

Familia: Xystodesmidae
Genus: Sigmoria
Species: Sigmoria pendulata

Name

Sigmoria pendulata Shelley, 1986.

Type locality: United States of America, Tennessee, DeKalb County, Edgar Elvins State Park.

Typus: Holotype ♂ NCSM-A2650 [later reported as USNM in later catalogs], 09-V-1979, legit. Shelley, R.M & R.K. Tardell; Paratype 5 ♂s, 5 ♀s (same data as Holotype).

Synonyms

Sigmoria (Falloria) pendulata Shelley, 1986: in Shelley & Whitehead, 1986: 142, figs. 121-124. Protonym
Falloria pendula [sic] (Shelley, 1986); Hoffman, 1999: 310. Comb. nov.; misspelling of epithet suffix repeated in Marek, Tanabe & Sierwald, 2014: 22; or as correct Falloria pendulata (Shelley, 1986); Marek & Bond, 2007: 37 (but which some catalogs annotate as erroneous spelling).
Sigmoria pendula [sic] Shelley, 1986; in supplement to Means et al. 2021: S37. Rest. comb.

(Note possibly see also "Sigmoria pendulosa" which may also be an unavailable subsequent spelling).

References

Primary references

Shelley, R.M. & Whitehead, D.R. 1986. A reconsideration of the milliped genus Sigmoria, with a revision of Deltotaria and an analysis of the genera in the tribe Apheloriini (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 35: 1-223. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Hoffman, R.L. 1999: Checklist of the Millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8. Martinsville, VA, 584 pp. PDF Reference page.
Marek, P.E. & Bond, J.E. 2007. A reassessment of apheloriine millipede phylogeny: additional taxa, Bayesian inference, and direct optimization (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae). Zootaxa 1610: 27–39. Abstract & excerpt DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1610.1.2 Reference page.
Marek, Tanabe & Sierwald, 2014. A species catalog of the millipede family Xystodesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications 17: 1–117. PDF Reference page.

Links

BHL bibliography
Sigmoria pendulata – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Sigmoria pendulata.
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