Chelodesmidae
Creators: name: Suriel, Carlos
name: Bueno-Villegas, Julián
name: Means, Jackson C.
name: Bouzan, Rodrigo Salvador
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Chelodesmidae

description: List of genera and species for each island
Cuba
Amphelictogon Chamberlin, 1918: Amphelictogon cubanus Chamberlin, 1918; A. obscurus Chamberlin, 1918; A. dentatus Chamberlin, 1918; A. pallidipes Chamberlin, 1918; A. manni Chamberlin, 1918; A. couloni (Humbert et Saussure, 1869); A. subterraneus (Saussure, 1859); A. propinquus Loomis, 1938; A. strumosus Loomis, 1938; A. flexus Loomis, 1938; A. rex Loomis, 1941; A. heteromus Hoffman, 1963; A. thomasi Pérez-Asso, 1996; A. subterraneus bahamiensis (Chamberlin, 1918); A. subterraneus dolius (Chamberlin, 1922); A. subterraneus pinetorum (Chamberlin, 1922); A. hoffmani Pérez-Asso, 1996; A. magnus (Bollman, 1889); A. alayoni Pérez-Asso, 1996; A. garridoi Pérez-Asso, 1996; A. turquinensis Pérez-Asso, 1998; A. blairi Pérez-Asso, 1998; A. loomisi Pérez-Asso, 1998; A. estebani Pérez-Asso, 1998; A. albertoi Pérez-Asso, 1998; A. romano Pérez-Asso, 2001.
Notes: This list includes the synonymies and new descriptions made by Pérez-Asso (1996, 1998a, 2001). Pérez-Asso (1996) criticized previous work on Amphelictogon in three aspects: description of species based on one or two specimens, female specimens and immature specimens designated as holotypes, and the absence of gonopod illustrations.
Antrogonodesmus Hoffman, 1959: Antrogonodesmus curiosus Hoffman, 1959.
Cubodesmus Chamberlin, 1918: Cubodesmus ramsdeni Chamberlin, 1918; C. prominens Loomis, 1938; C. mariana Pérez-Asso, 1998; C. yazminae Pérez-Asso, 1998.
Granmadesmus Pérez-Asso, 1990: Granmadesmus minor Pérez-Asso, 1990.
Leiomodesmus Loomis, 1938: Leiomodesmus flavocinctus Loomis, 1938.
Plicatodesmus Pérez-Asso, 1995: Plicatodesmus turquino Pérez-Asso, 1995; P. baire Pérez-Asso, 1995; P. mariana Pérez-Asso, 1995.
Tomodesmus Chamberlin, 1918: Tomodesmus thaumastus Chamberlin, 1918.
Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti)
Achromoporus Loomis, 1936: Achromoporus coloratus Loomis, 1936; A. enneryensis Loomis, 1936; A. furcipes Loomis, 1936; A. robustus Loomis, 1936; A. heteromus Loomis, 1941; A. concolor (Loomis, 1941); A. montanus (Loomis, 1941); A. ovatus (Loomis, 1941); A. platyurus (Loomis, 1941); A. bayaguana Pérez-Asso, 2005; A. ebanoverde Pérez-Asso, 2005; A. andujari Pérez-Asso, 2009; A. cachote Pérez-Asso, 2009; A. chocoensis Pérez-Asso, 2009; A. isabelensis Pérez-Asso, 2009; A. jaragua Pérez-Asso, 2009; A. magnus Pérez-Asso, 2009; A. martingarcia Pérez-Asso, 2009; A. occultus Pérez-Asso, 2009; A. pallidus Pérez-Asso, 2009; A. surieli Pérez-Asso, 2009; A. vallenuevo Pérez-Asso, 2009; A. atrechoensis Suriel, 2010; A. elegans Suriel, 2010; A. bastardoae Suriel, 2011; A. fractus Suriel, 2011.
Notes: 1) The genus was described by Loomis (1936), based on the type species A. coloratus and three additional species, all recorded from Haiti: A. enneryensis, A. furcipes and A. robustus. All have gonopods with bi-branched acropodites. 2) Later, Loomis described four new genera (1941a): Lasiomazus, Craterodesmus, Biaporus and Synecheporus, which also have gonopods with bi-branched acropodites, like Achromoporus, but this fundamental feature was not considered when describing these new genera. Pérez-Asso (2009a) reviewed the genus and concluded that Lasiomazus, Craterodesmus, Biaporus, and Synecheporus should be considered as junior synonyms of Achromoporus. These synonymies of Pérez-Asso were later included by Suriel (2010, 2011, 2013).
Amphelictogon Chamberlin, 1918: Amphelictogon manni Chamberlin, 1918.
Beatadesmus Loomis, 1934: Beatadesmus bahorucoensis Pérez-Asso, 2010; B. engonatus (Loomis, 1936); B. insignis (Chamberlin, 1918); B. ivonneae Pérez-Asso, 2008; B. longipes (Loomis, 1936); B. pedernales Pérez-Asso, 2008; B. pullus (Loomis, 1936); B. rubens (Loomis, 1936); B. sallei (De Saussure, 1860); B. scitulus (Loomis, 1936); B. utowani Loomis, 1934; B. yuma (Pérez-Asso, 2003).
Notes: 1) The genus Beatadesmus, was described by Loomis (1934) based on B. utowani, with the type locality in Beata, an island in the southernmost point of the Dominican Republic (Caribbean Sea), although Loomis erroneously records it as Haiti. Unfortunately, the description was based on fragments of heads from different specimens and a single immature female, and the gonopodal morphology remained unknown. 2) The male of B. utowani was re-described by Pérez-Asso (2008); however the examination of the gonopods of B. utowani later justified the synonymy of Pogonodesmus and Aplopododesmu s with Quisquicia, but also the inclusion of the latter in Beatadesmus, based on the presence of a common gonopodal structure (Pérez-Asso 2010a). This synonymy had been previously suggested by Loomis (1936), Attems (1938) and Hoffman (1999). Attems (1938) had already included Pogonodesmus and Aplopododesmus as synonyms of Quisquicia.
Chondrotropis Loomis, 1936: Chondrotropis niger Loomis, 1936; C. pictus Loomis, 1936; C. venustus Loomis, 1936.
Cyrtaphe Loomis, 1936: Cyrtaphe alternata Loomis, 1936; C. continuata Loomis, 1936; C. lobipes Loomis, 1936; C. domingensis Loomis, 1941; C. neiba Pérez-Asso, 2010.
Ebanodesmus Pérez-Asso, 2005: Ebanodesmus victori Pérez-Asso, 2005.
Ellipodesmus Chamberlin, 1918: Ellipodesmus simplex Chamberlin, 1918.
Hypselodesmus Loomis, 1941: Hypselodesmus bicolor Loomis, 1941; H. assoi Suriel, 2009; H. subtilissimus Suriel, 2012.
Podiscodesmus Loomis, 1941: Podiscodesmus carinatus Loomis, 1941; P. neiba Pérez-Asso, 2009.
Pterygiodesmus Loomis, 1936: Pterygiodesmus strumosus Loomis, 1936.
Notes: Eoromus aberrans Loomis, 1936 from Haiti was described from a single male housed in the USNM, and stands out as a highly unusual species. Originally assigned to its own family, Eoromidae, it was subsequently placed within Pyrgodesmidae by Hoffman 1979a. Later, despite being considered by Hoffman (1999) as a Polydesmida of uncertain family position or status, he suggested a probable affiliation with the Andean chelodesmid tribe Batodesmini, based on the morphology of the collum and epiproct, despite its reduced gonopods and geographic isolation. However, as Hoffman (1999) proposed, only a careful re-examination of the single known male of E. aberrans, or other topotypic material, could confirm the family position of this unusual species. We include this case in our results because as stated by Hoffman (1999) this species could be possibly related to Chelodesmidae. However, more work is needed to confirm its placement in the family.
Jamaica
Caraibodesmus Chamberlin, 1918: Caraibodesmus acutipes Loomis, 1975; C. bruesi Chamberlin, 1918; C. criniger Loomis, 1937; C. formosus (Pocock, 1894); C. lewisi Hoffman, 1979; C. mammatus (Pocock, 1894); C. morantus (Karsch, 1881); C. pellus Chamberlin, 1918; C. pictus Loomis, 1969; C. sculpturatus Loomis, 1975; C. verrucosus (Pocock, 1894); C. tuberculatus (Attems, 1898).
Chondrotropis Loomis, 1936: Chondrotropis sp.
Notes: 1) The presence of Chondrotropis in Jamaica has been supported only by the basis of sub-fossil specimens without determination at species level (Baalbergen & Donovan 2013).
Platyurodesmus Loomis, 1977: Platyurodesmus parallelus Loomis, 1977.
Puerto Rico
Ricodesmus Chamberlin, 1922: Ricodesmus mauritii (Brandt, 1839); R. stejnegeri Chamberlin, 1922; R. uniporus (Loomis, 1977).
Bahamas
Amphelictogon Chamberlin, 1918: Amphelictogon subterraneus bahamiensis Chamberlin, 1918.
Trinidad and Tobago
Belonodesmus Chamberlin, 1918: Belonodesmus thaxteri Chamberlin, 1918.
Lepturodesmus Silvestri, 1898: Lepturodesmus hardyi Shelley, 2002; L. joannae Hoffman, 1975.
Pandirodesmus Silvestri, 1932: Pandirodesmus rutherfordi Shelley et Smith, 2015; P. jaggernauthi Vandenspiegel, Golovatch et Rutherford, 2022.
Zigwadesmus Chamberlin, 1918: Zigwadesmus brunneus Chamberlin, 1918; Z. tucuche Hoffman, 1975.
Grenada and Saint Vincent and The Grenadines
Antillodesmus Chamberlin, 1918: Antillodesmus vincentii (Pocock, 1894).
description: Published as part of Suriel, Carlos, Bueno-Villegas, Julián, Means, Jackson C. & Bouzan, Rodrigo Salvador, 2024, A bibliographic review of the Chelodesmidae of the Antilles and Bahamas (Diplopoda: Polydesmida), pp. 247-263 in Zootaxa 5538 (3) on pages 251-253, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5538.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/14611699