Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1938). Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea II. Fam. Leptodesmidae, Platyrhachidae, Oxydesmidae, Gomphodesmidae. Das Tierreich. 69: 1-487. Berlin.

additional source

Chamberlin, R. V. (1923). Results of the Bryant Walker Expeditions of the University of Michigan to Colombia, 1913, and British Guiana, 1914. The Diplopoda. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. 133: 1-83.

original description

Hoffman, R. L. (1969). Chelodesmid studies. IV. A summary of the tribe Batodesmini, with the description of a new species of Biporodesmus from northwestern Brasil. Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia. 22(25): 263-283. Sao Paulo.

source of synonymy

Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.

basis of record

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: 1-412. Amsterdam

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