Zoosphaerium

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Sphaerotheriida
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: Pentazonia Superordo: Oniscomorpha Ordo: Sphaerotheriida

Familia: Arthrosphaeridae
Genus: Zoosphaerium
Species: Z. bartolozzii – Z. bemanevika – Z. darthvaderi – Z. mangabe – Z. minutus – Z. taitii

Name

Zoosphaerium Pocock, 1895

References

Pocock, R.I. 1895. On the Arachnida and Myriopoda obtained by Dr. Anderson`s collector during Mr. T. Bent's Expedition to the Hadramaut, South Arabia. Journal of the Linnean Society of London 25: 292–299. Reference page.
Sagorny, C. & Wesener, T. 2017. Two new giant pill-millipede species of the genus Zoosphaerium endemic to the Bemanevika area in northern Madagascar (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Arthrosphaeridae). Zootaxa 4263(2): 273–294. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.2.4. Reference page.
Wesener, T. 2009: Unexplored richness: discovery of 31 new species of giant pill-millipedes endemic to Madagascar, with a special emphasis on microendemism (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida). Zootaxa, 2097: 1–134. Abstract & excerpt
Wesener, T. & Anilkumar, P.A. 2020. The millipedes collected by the Museum "La Specola" on Madagascar 1989/1991, with the description of three new species of giant pill-millipedes (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Arthrosphaeridae). Pp 3–35 In Korsós, Z. & Dányi, L. 2020. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary (25‒31 August 2019). ZooKeys, 930: 1–229. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.930.47620 Reference page.
Wesener, T.; Bespalova, I.; Sierwald, P. 2010: Madagascar's living giants: discovery of five new species of endemic giant pill-millipedes from Madagascar (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida: Arthrosphaeridae: Zoosphaerium). African invertebrates, 51(1): 133–161. ISSN: 1681-5556
Wesener, T.; Sierwald, P. 2005: New giant pill-millipede species from the littoral forest of Madagascar (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zoosphaerium). Zootaxa, 1097: 1–60. Abstract & excerpt PDF