Cave millipeds of the United States. VIII. new genera and species of polydesmidan millipeds from caves in the southwestern United States (diplopoda, polydesmida, macrosternodesmidae)

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 2151, 2009, Pages 47-65

  Shear, William A ^a   Taylor, Steven J ^b   Wynne, J Judson ^c,d   Krejca, Jean K ^e  

^a HAMPDEN SYDNEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c Merriam Powell Center for Environmental Research   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Zara Environmental LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPLOPODA; MACROSTERNODESMIDAE; POLYDESMIDA;

EID: 67651007121     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Barr, T. C. Jr. & Reddell, J. R. (1967) The Arthropod Cave Fauna of the Carlsbad Caverns Region, New Mexico. The Southwestern Naturalist, 12, 253-273.
2. Chamberlin, R.V. (1943) On nine North American polydesmoid millipeds. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 56, 35-40.
3. Djursvoll, P. (2008). Revision of the Iberian millipede genus Schizomeritus Verhoeff, 1931 (Diplopoda, Polydesmidae), with the description of three new species. International Journal of Myriapodology, 1, 111-122.
4. Djursvoll, P., Golovatch, S.I., Johansen, K.A. & Meidell, B. (2001 [2000]) Phylogenetic relationships within Polydesmus sensu lato (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Polydesmidae). Fragmenta Faunistica, 43 (Supplement), 37-57.
5. Golovatch, S.I. (2009) Millipedes (Diplopoda) in extreme environments, pp. 87-112, In: Golovatch, S. I., Makarova, O. L., Babenko, A. B. & Penev, L. D., eds., Festschrift towards the 75th anniversary and a Laudatio in honor of Academician Yuri Ivanovich Chernov, Pensoft Publishers, Moscow.
6. Golovatch, S.I., & Wytwer, J. (2007) Brachydesmus nevoi, a new millipede from Israel (Diplopoda, Polydesmidae). Graellsia, 59, 79-86.
7. Lowry, J. H., Jr., Ramsey, R. D., Thomas, K. A., Schrupp, D., Kepner, W., Sajwaj, T., Kirby, J., Waller, E., Schrader, S., Falzarano, S., Stoner, L. L., Manis, G., Wallace, C., Schulz, K., Comer, P., Pohs, K., Rieth, W., Velasquez,, C., Wolk, B., Boykin, K. G., O'Brien, L., Prior-Magee, J., Bradford, D., & Thompson B. C. (2006), Land Cover Classification and Mapping, USGS Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Final Report, pp. 14-38. http://fws-nmcfwru.nmsu.edu/ swregap/default.htm
8. Peck, S.B. (1973) A review of the invertebrate fauna of volcanic caves in western North America. National Speleological Society Bulletin, 35, 99-107.
9. Peck, S.B. (1981) The invertebrate fauna of the caves of the Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah. Great Basin Naturalist, 41, 207-212.
10. Peck, S.B. (1982) Invertebrate faunas and zoogeographic significance of lava tube caves of Arizona and New Mexico. Great Basin Naturalist, 42, 405-412.
11. Sala, O.E., Chapin, F. S., III, Armesto, J. J., Berlow, E., Bloomfield, J., Dirzo, R., Huber-Sanwald, E., Huenneke, L. F., Jackson, R. B., Kinzig, A., Leemans, R., Lodge, D. M.,, Mooney, H. A., Osterheld, M., Poff, N. L., Sykes, M. T., Walker, B. H., Walker, M., & Wall, D. H. (2000) Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the Year 2100. Science 287: 1770-1774.
12. Shear, W.A. (2007) Cave millipeds of the United States. V. The genus Idagona Buckett & Gardner (Chordeumatida, Conotylidae, Idagoninae). Zootaxa, 1463:1-12.
13. Shear, W.A. (2008) Spinnerets in the milliped order Polydesmida, and the phylogenetic significance of spinnerets in millipeds (Diplopoda). International Journal of Myriapodology, 2, 123-146.
14. Shear, W.A., & Shelley, R.M. (2007) The milliped genus Tidesmus Chamberlin 1943 (Polydesmida, Macrosternodesmidae). Zootaxa, 1656, 51-68.
15. Shear, W.A., & Shelley, R.M. (2008) Cave millipeds of the United States. VI. Sequoiadesmus krejcae, n. gen., n. sp., from Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California, USA (Diplopoda, Polyesmida, Trichopolydesmidea, Macrosternodesmidae). Zootaxa, 1693, 41-48.
16. Shelley, R. M. (1993) Harpagonopus (sic) confluentus Loomis, a Pacific Coast milliped of the United States and Mexico (Polydesmida: Trichopolydesmoidea). Myriapodologica, 2, 73-81.
17. Shelley, R.M. (1994) The milliped family Nearctodesmidae in northwestern North America, with accounts of Sakophallus and S. simplex Chamberlin (Poyldesmida), Canadian Journal of Zoology, 72, 470-495.
18. Thomas, C.D., Cameron, A., Green, R.E., Bakkenes, M., Beaumont, L.J., Collingham, Y.C., Erasmus, B.F.N., Ferreira de Siqueira, M., Grainger, A., Hannah, L., Hughes, L., Huntley, B., Van Jaarsveld, A.S., Midgley, G.F., Miles, L., Ortega-Huerta, M.A., Peterson, A.T., Phillips, O.L., Williams, S.E. (2004) Extinction risk from climate change. Nature, 427, 145-148.
19. Webb, T., & Bartlein, P.J. (1992) Global changes during the last 3 million years: climatic controls and biotic responses. Annual Reviews of Ecology and Systematics, 23, 141-173.
20. Welbourn, W. C. (1999) Invertebrate Cave Fauna of Kartchner Caverns, Kartchner Caverns, Arizona. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, 61, 93-101.
21. Wynne, J.J., Drost, C.A., Cobb, N.S., & Rihs, J.R. (2007) Cave-dwelling invertebrate fauna of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. In: Sogge, M.K. and Van Riper, C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp. 235-246.
22. Wynne, J.J., Titus, T.N., Drost, C.A., Toomey, III, R.S., Peterson, K. (2008a) Annual thermal amplitudes and thermal detection of Southwestern U.S. caves: additional insights for remote sensing of caves on Earth and Mars, Abstract #2459, 39th LPSC, League City, TX.
23. Wynne, J.J., Titus, T.N., & Chong-Diaz, G. (2008b) On developing thermal cave detection techniques for Earth, the Moon and Mars. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 272, 240-250.