Sigmoria pendulata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Polydesmida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata 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, USA. 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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