MCZ Invertebrate Zoology DIPL-4686

Platyrhacus simplex Chamberlin, 1921

Holotype of Platyrhacus simplex

Date Collected:

1900-01-01/1921-12-31

Asia: Malaysia | Borneo: Sarawak; Ladong

Current Identification
Platyrhacus simplex Chamberlin, 1921
Animalia Arthropoda Diplopoda Helminthomorpha Merocheta Polydesmida Chelodesmidea Platyrhacidae
Determiner: Ralph V. Chamberlin
Nature of ID: type ID

Chamberlin 1921, page 82, Holotype of Platyrhacus simplex Chamberlin, 1921 doi: 10.1080/00222932108632489 linked data icon
p. 82-83. "Locality.--Borneo: Sarawak, Ladong (H. W. Smith). Type, Mus. Comp. Zool. (No. 4686)."
Media type: text; Chamberlin 1921 Description: New Chilopoda and Diplopoda from the East Indian Region;

(Media Record) (Related) (File)

Shows Publication: Chamberlin 1921 Description: New Chilopoda and Diplopoda from the East Indian Region

  • collection number: RVC-4686

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (95% ethanol) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: 3 legs: 1 loose, 1 from L 12th segment posterior, 1 from L 13th segment anterior; subsampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2025-05-23
subsampled by = Zoe Flores   determined date=2025-05-05   determined by=Zoe FloresORCID iD icon  
whole animal (70% ethanol) damaged in collection 1 History (6)
Remarks: broken into three pieces; one gonopod in small vial

Attribute Value Determination On
sex male [no agent data]
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Zoe Flores 2025-05-05

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  • 1 male. Label: "specimen dried up relaxed 1957". In "List of Chamberlin Species" file; with number.

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  • Continent:
  • Asia
  • Country:
  • Malaysia
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/1000128 linked data icon
  • Specific Locality:
  • Borneo: Sarawak; Ladong
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Malaysia, Borneo: Sarawak; Ladong
  • Georeference:
  • 2.50000000°, 113.500000° (Error radius: 301m) By: Brendan Haley on 2019-06-10 (Source: GEOLocate batch georeferencing, 2019-06-10)[Note: a coordinate uncertainty of 301m is given by Biogeomancer and GeoLocate when unable to determine an uncertainty]
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1900-01-01 / 1921-12-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • pre-1921 publication date
  • Collector:
  • Harrison W. Smith

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