MCZ Invertebrate Zoology DIPL-4981

Platyrhacus gonethus Chamberlin, 1920

Date Collected:

Current Identification

Platyrhacus gonethus Chamberlin, 1920

Animalia Arthropoda Diplopoda Helminthomorpha Merocheta Polydesmida Chelodesmidea Platyrhacidae

Determiner: Ralph V. Chamberlin

Nature of ID: type ID

Chamberlin 1920, page 141, Holotype of Platyrhacus gonethus Chamberlin, 1920 p. 141-142. "TYPE.--M. C. Z. 4,981. PARATYPES.--M. C. Z. 4,982. Solomons: Fulakora (W. M. Mann)."

Shows Publication: Chamberlin 1920 Description: MCZ Bulletin Vol. LXIV no. 1

Part	Condition	Disposition	Count
tissue (95% ethanol)	good	in collection	1	History
Remarks: 2 legs: loose; subsampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2025-05-23
subsampled by = Zoe Flores determined date=2025-04-03 determined by=Zoe Flores
whole animal (70% ethanol)	damaged	in collection	1	History
Remarks: broken into three pieces; left 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	2025-04-03
citation	1920. Bull. MCZ, vol. LXIV(1): 141-142	[no agent data], Method: migration	2011-03-06

CURRENT/REVISED NAME: Parazodesmus gonethus (Chamberlin, 1920). 1 male. In "List of Chamberlin Species" file; with number. Label: "specimen dried up relaxed 1957"