References

Links after some of the references:
 
BHL = in the online Biodiversity Heritage Library, starting at the linked page
DOI = online at the journal website
PDF = downloadable from the journal website

The taxonomy references are the principal ones for individual species and include descriptions and redescriptions. References are listed chronologically within each order. For complete synonymies and citations to 2019, download the archived Millipedes of Australia website from Zenodo.


DISTRIBUTION

Mesibov, R. (1994) Faunal breaks in Tasmania and their significance for invertebrate conservation. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 36(1): 133-136.
Various species, including millipedes undescribed at the time      BHL

Mesibov, R. (1997) A zoogeographical singularity at Weavers Creek, Tasmania. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 56: 563-573.
Various species, including millipedes undescribed at the time      BHL

Mesibov, R. (1999) The Mersey Break: an unexplained faunal boundary on the north coast of Tasmania. In Ponder, W. and Lunney, D. (eds.), The Other 99%. The Conservation and Biodiversity of Invertebrates. Transactions of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Mosman (NSW): Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales; pp. 246-252.
Various species, including millipedes undescribed at the time

Mesibov, R. (2008) On millipedes and sense of place. The Tasmanian Naturalist 130: 2-9.
Various species; GIS exercise showing that overlapping millipede mosaics delimit fairly small areas in Tasmania      BHL

Mesibov, R. (2011) A remarkable case of mosaic parapatry in millipedes. ZooKeys 156: 71-84.
Tasmaniosoma compitale, T. hickmanorum in northwest Tasmania      DOI

Mesibov, R. (2020) A second remarkable case of parapatry in a Tasmanian millipede genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 930: 89-101.
Tasmaniosoma armatum, T. orientale in northeast Tasmania     DOI


ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION

Mesibov, R., Taylor, R.J. and Brereton, R.N. (1995) Relative efficiency of pitfall trapping and hand-collecting from plots for sampling of millipedes. Biodiversity and Conservation 4: 429-439.
Various species, including millipedes undescribed at the time

Mesibov, R. (1998) Species-level comparison of litter invertebrates at two rainforest sites in Tasmania. Tasforests 10: 141-157.
Various species, including millipedes undescribed at the time

Mesibov, R. (2001) The Milabena Marvel, or why single-species conservation is inappropriate for cryptic invertebrates. The Tasmanian Naturalist 123:16-23.
Comments on the first searches for Propolyxenus forsteri in Tasmania

Bonham, K.J., Mesibov, R. and Bashford, R. (2002) Diversity and abundance of ground-dwelling invertebrates in plantation vs. native forests in Tasmania, Australia. Forest Ecology and Management 158: 237-247.
Various species, including millipedes undescribed at the time

Mesibov, R., Bonham, K.J., Doran, N., Meggs, J., Munks, S., Otley, H. and Richards, K. (2002) Single-species sampling in Tasmania: an inefficient approach to invertebrate conservation? Invertebrate Systematics 16: 655-663.
Sampling of Lissodesmus alisonae is included

Mesibov, R. and Churchill, T. (2003) Patterns in pitfall captures of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) at coastal heathland sites in Tasmania. Australian Zoologist 32(3): 431-438.
Notodesmus scotius, Pogonosternum jeekeli (as Pogonosternum sp.)     PDF

Mesibov, R. (2005) Native species dominate the millipede fauna in a second-rotation Pinus radiata plantation in Tasmania, Australia. Pacific Conservation Biology 11:17-22.
Various species, including millipedes undescribed at the time

Mesibov, R. (2007) The Trafalgar millipede Lissodesmus johnsi Mesibov, 2006 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae). Victorian Naturalist 124(4): 197-203.
Not Tasmanian, but worth a read      BHL

Mesibov, R. (2008) Millipede salvage in southwest Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 125(4): 96-103.
Not Tasmanian, but worth a read      BHL

Mesibov, R. (2012) 71 new Tasmanians. The Tasmanian Naturalist 134: 14-15.
Comments on undescribed Polydesmida      BHL

Mesibov, R. (2015) Where should I collect millipedes next? The Tasmanian Naturalist 137: 91-93.
GIS exercise on sampling site distributions      BHL

Mesibov, R. (2017) A note on the millipedes of Reid Street Reserve, West Ulverstone. The Tasmanian Naturalist 139: 71-73.
Various species in a suburban reserve      BHL

Jones, T.H., Guthrie, D.M., Hogan, C.T., Robinson, D.J., Mesibov, R., Shear, W.A., Spande, T.F. and Saporito, R.A. (2018) The chemistry of some dalodesmidean millipedes from Tasmania (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Journal of Natural Products 81: 171-177.
Defensive secretions of Asphalidesmus leae, Atalopharetra johnsi, Bromodesmus catrionae, B. rufus, Dasystigma margaretae, Gasterogramma austrinum, G. imber, G. plomleyi, G. psi, G. rusticum, G. wynyardense, Lissodesmus alisonae, L. perporosus, Tasmaniosoma armatum


TAXONOMY

Polyxenida

Silvestri, F. (1923) Notizia della presenza del genere Synxenus (Myriapoda, Diplopoda) in Catalogna e descrizione di quattro specie. Treballs del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona 4(5): 5-15.
Phryssonotus novaehollandiae (as Synxenus Novaehollandiae)

Condé, B. (1951) Un Pénicillate inédit de Nouvelle-Zélande (Myriapodes, Diplopodes). Records of the Canterbury Museum 6(1): 9-14.
Propolyxenus forsteri

Short, M. and Huynh, C. (2010) Revision of the genus Propolyxenus Silvestri with description of a new species. International Journal of Myriapodology 3: 1-17.
Propolyxenus australis, P. forsteri

Short, M. and Huynh, C. (2011) The genus Unixenus Jones, 1944 (Diplopoda, Penicillata, Polyxenida) in Australia. ZooKeys 156: 105-122.
Unixenus corticolus     DOI

Huynh, C. and Veenstra, A.A. (2018) Two new species of Phryssonotus (Diplopoda : Synxenidae) from southern and western Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 65(4): 248-256.
Phryssonotus australis, P. novaehollandiae


Sphaerotheriida

Silvestri, F. (1917) Materiali per una revisione dei Diplopoda Oniscomorpha. II. Specie di Sphaeroteridae delle regioni australiana e neozelandese a me note. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scoula Superiore d'Agricoltura in Portici 12: 61-85.
Procyliosoma leae, P. tasmanicum     BHL

Wesener, T. and VandenSpiegel, D. (2009) A first phylogenetic analysis of Giant Pill-Millipedes (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida), a new model Gondwanan taxon, with special emphasis on island gigantism. Cladistics 25(6): 545-573.
Procyliosoma leae, undescribed Procyliosoma

Wesener, T. (2014) A new phylogenetic analysis of the Sphaerotheriida (Diplopoda) with a revision of the Australian giant pill-millipedes. Invertebrate Systematics 28: 196-213.
Procyliosoma leae, undescribed Procyliosoma

Wesener, T. (2016) The Giant Pill-Millipedes, order Sphaerotheriida – An annotated species catalogue with morphological atlas and list of apomorphies (Arthropoda: Diplopoda). Bonn Zoological Bulletin - Supplementum 63: 1-104.
Procyliosoma leae, P. tasmanicum     PDF


Spirostreptida

Gervais, P. (1847) Myriapodes. Pp. 1-333, 577-595 in: Walckenaer, D.A. and Gervais, P. (eds), Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Aptères 4. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris.
Amastigogonus verreauxii (as Iulus Verreauxii)
BHL (first part) and BHL (second part)

Brölemann, H.W. (1913) The Myriapoda in the Australian Museum. Part ii. Diplopoda. Records of the Australian Museum 10(6): 77-158, pls 14-18.
Amastigogonus tasmanianus     BHL (text) and BHL (plates)

Chamberlin, R.V. (1920) The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64(1): 1-269.
Amastigogonus hardyi (as Euethogonus hardyi)     BHL

Verhoeff, K.W. (1944) Zur Kenntnis der Cambaliden und über einige neue australische Formen derselben. Zoologischer Anzeiger 145: 27-45.
Amastigogonus hardyi (as Amastigogonus nichollsii), Amastigogonus fossuliger

Hoffman, R.L. (1972) On the identity of three genera of cambaloid millipeds from the Australian region (Spirostreptida). Psyche (Cambridge) 79: 200-208.
Amastigogonus hardyi     BHL

Mauriès, J.-P., Golovatch, S.I. and Hoffman, R.L. (2001) On type material and the identity of several Iulus species in the collection of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirobolida). Zoosystema 23(3): 579-589.
Amastigogonus verreauxii     PDF

Mesibov, R. (2017) Iulomorphid millipedes (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Iulomorphidae) of Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 652: 1-36.
Amastigogonus danpicola, A. elephas, A. fossuliger, A. hardyi, A. hellyeri, A. michaelsae, A. orientalis, A. peninsulensis, A. tasmanianus, A. verreauxii, Atelomastix bonhami, A. smithi, Equestrigonus tasmaniensis     DOI

Mesibov, R. (2017) A new and unusual species of Amastigogonus Brölemann, 1913 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Iulomorphidae). ZooKeys 687: 45-51.
Amastigogonus insularis     DOI

Mesibov, R. (2019) Cambaloid millipedes of Tasmania, Australia, with remarks on family-level classification and descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida). ZooKeys 827: 1-17.
Tasmanocambala greeni, T. tasmanica, T. taylori, Talomius weldensis     DOI


Chordeumatida

Golovatch, S.I. (1986) The first Chordeumatida (Diplopoda) from Tasmania, with the description of a new genus and three new species. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik 113: 251-264.
Australeuma jeekeli, A. simile, Nesiothrix tasmanica (as Schedotrigona tasmanica)

Shear, W.A. and Mesibov, R. (1994) Australian chordeumatidan millipeds. I. New observations on the genus Peterjohnsia Mauriès, with the description of a new species from Tasmania (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Peterjohnsiidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 535-544.
Peterjohnsia titan

Shear, W.A. and Mesibov, R. (1995) Australian chordeumatidan millipeds. II. A new species of Reginaterreuma Mauriès from Tasmania (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Metopidiotrichidae). Myriapodologica 3(8): 71-77.
Reginaterreuma tarkinensis     PDF

Shear, W.A. and Mesibov, R. (1997) Australian chordeumatidan millipedes. III. A review of the millipede family Metopidiotrichidae Attems in Australia (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida). Invertebrate Taxonomy 11: 141-178.
Australeuma golovatchi, A. jeekeli, A. mauriesi, A. simile, Neocambrisoma cacchinus, N. fieldensis, Nesiothrix mangana, N. medialis, N. tasmanica, Reginaterreuma tarkinensis, Peterjohnsia titan


Polydesmida

Carl, J. (1902) Exotische Polydesmiden. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10(2): 563-679, pls 10-12.
Pogonosternum nigrovirgatum (as Strongylosoma nigrovirgatum)
BHL article and BHL plates

Silvestri, F. (1910) Descrizioni preliminari di nuovi generi di Diplopodi. I. Polydesmoidea. Zoologischer Anzeiger 35: 357-364.
Asphalidesmus leae     BHL

Chamberlin, R.V. (1920) The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64(1): 1-269.
Asphalidesmus parvus (as Atopodesmus parvus), Lissodesmus modestus, Notodesmus scotius, Tasmanodesmus hardyi     BHL

Verhoeff, K.W. (1936) Die Sphaerotrichopidae der südlichen Halbkugel und ihre Beziehungen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 114(1/2): 1-14.
Tasmaniosoma armatum

Jeekel, C.A.W. (1965) A new genus and a new species of the family Paradoxosomatidae from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Entomologische Berichten (Amsterdam) 25: 7-14.
Pogonosternum nigrovirgatum

Jeekel, C.A.W. (1982) Millipedes from Australia, 2: Antichiropodini from Victoria (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 8(24): 201-212.
Dicranogonus pix     PDF

Jeekel, C.A.W. (1982) Millipedes from Australia, 4: A new genus and species of the family Dalodesmidae from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 9(2): 9-15.
Gasterogramma psi     PDF

Jeekel, C.A.W. (1984) Millipedes from Australia, 7: The identity of the genus Lissodesmus Chamberlin, with the description of four new species from Tasmania (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 118: 85-101.
Lissodesmus adrianae, L. alisonae, Dasystigma margaretae (as Lissodesmus margaretae), L. modestus, L. perporosus     PDF

Mesibov, R. (2002) Redescriptions of Asphalidesmus leae Silvestri, 1910 and A parvus (Chamberlin, 1920) comb. nov. from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Haplodesmidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 59(2): 531-540.
Asphalidesmus leae, A. parvus     BHL

Mesibov, R. (2003) Two new and unusual genera of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) from Tasmania, Australia. Zootaxa 368: 1-32.
Paredrodesmus aceriodendron, P. australis, P. bicalcar, P. monticolus, P. purpureus, P. taurulus, Procophorella bashfordi, P. innupta

Mesibov, R. (2003) A new genus of Tasmanian millipedes (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) with unusual spiracles and a mosaic distribution. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 60(2): 197-206.
Dasystigma bonhami, D. huonense, D. margaretae, D. tyleri     BHL

Mesibov, R. (2003) The millipede genus Gasterogramma (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) in Tasmania, Australia, with descriptions of seven new species. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 60(2): 207-219.
Gasterogramma austrinum, G. extremum, G. imber, G. plomleyi, G. psi, G. rusticum, G. tarkinense, G. wynyardense     BHL

Mesibov, R. (2004) Redescription of Tasmanodesmus hardyi Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae). Myriapodologica 8(3): 21-36.
Tasmanodesmus hardyi     PDF

Mesibov, R. (2004) A new genus of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia with a mosaic distribution. Zootaxa 480: 1-23.
Atrophotergum bonhami, A. montanum, A. pastorale, A. silvaticum, A. sodalis, A. wurrawurraense

Mesibov, R. (2004) A new genus and four new species of millipedes from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae), with notes on male leg setae in some Tasmanian dalodesmids. Zootaxa 558: 1-19.
Bromodesmus catrionae, B. militaris, B. riparius, B. rufus

Mesibov, R. (2005) A new genus of burrowing and cave-dwelling millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. Zootaxa 1034: 21-42.
Atalopharetra bashfordi, A. clarkei, A. eberhardi, A. johnsi

Mesibov, R. (2005) A new genus of millipede (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) with a pseudo-articulated gonopod telopodite. Zootaxa 1064: 39-49.
Ginglymodesmus penelopae, G. sumac, G. tasmanianus     PDF

Jeekel, C.A.W. (2006) Millipedes from Australia, 18: Tasmanian Paradoxosomatidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) (Genera Somethus Chamb., Notodesmus Chamb. and Aethalosoma nov.). Myriapod Memoranda 8: 75-89.
Aethalosoma solum, Notodesmus scotius, Somethus mesibovi, Somethus tasmani

Mesibov, R. (2006) The millipede genus Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania and Victoria, with descriptions of a new genus and 24 new species. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 62(2): 103-146. [Dated 2005, published 2006]
Lissodesmus adrianae, L. alisonae, L. anas, L. bashfordi, L. clivulus, L. cognatus, L. cornutus, L. devexus, L. hamatus, L. horridomontis, L. inopinatus, L. latus, L. modestus, L. montanus, L. orarius, L. peninsulensis, L. perporosus, L. plomleyi     BHL

Mesibov, R. (2009) A new millipede genus and a new species of Asphalidesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidea) from southern Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 7: 55-74.
Asphalidesmus golovatchi, Noteremus infimus, N. summus     DOI

Mesibov, R. (2009) New and little-used morphological characters in Polydesmida (Diplopoda). Soil Organisms 81(3): 531-542.
Aethalosoma solum, Dicranogonus pix (as Dicranogonus sp.), Lissodesmus anas, Notodesmus scotius, Pogonosternum nigrovirgatum (as Pogonosternum sp.), Somethus mesibovi, S. tasmani, Tasmanodesmus hardyi; comments on some other species

Mesibov, R. (2010) The millipede genus Tasmaniosoma Verhoeff, 1936 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia, with descriptions of 18 new species. ZooKeys 41: 31-80.
Tasmaniosoma alces, T. armatum, T. aureorivum, T. australe, T. barbatulum, T. bruniense, T. cacofonix, T. clarksonorum, T. compitale, T. decussatum, T. fasciculum, T. fragile, T. gerdiorivum, T. hesperium, T. hickmanorum, T. laccobium, T. maria, T. orientale, T. warra
DOI

Mesibov, R. (2010) Two new millipede genera from northwest Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae). Zootaxa 2571: 53-61.
Dysmicodesmus jeekeli, Setoisenoton pallidus

Mesibov, R. (2014) The Australian millipede Dicranogonus pix Jeekel, 1982 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae): a species with and without paranota. ZooKeys 454: 29-39.
Dicranogonus pix     DOI

Mesibov, R. (2015) Three new species of Tasmaniosoma Verhoeff, 1936 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from northeast Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 488: 31-46.
Tasmaniosoma anubis, T. interfluminum, T. nicolaus, T. barbatulum     DOI

Mesibov, R. and Car, C.A. (2015) A new genus and species of native exotic millipede in Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). ZooKeys 498: 7-16.
Taxidiotisoma portabile      DOI

Decker, P. (2016) Phylogenetic analysis of the Australian trans-Bass Strait millipede genus Pogonosternum (Carl, 1912) (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) indicates multiple glacial refugia in southeastern Australia. ZooKeys 578: 15-31.
Pogonosternum nigrovirgatum     DOI

Decker, P., Mesibov, R., Voigtländer, K. and Xylander, W.E.R. (2017) Revision of the Australian millipede genus Pogonosternum Jeekel, 1965, with descriptions of two new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 259: 1-34.
Pogonosternum jeekeli, P. nigrovirgatum     PDF

Decker, P. (2018) Phylogenetic and morphological discord indicates introgressive hybridisation in two genera of Australian millipedes (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). ZooKeys 809:1-14.
Pogonosternum jeekeli, P. nigrovirgatum     DOI

Mesibov, R. (2018) A new, alpine species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 754:103-111.
Lissodesmus nivalis     DOI

Mesibov, R. (2019) A new and cryptic species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 846: 31-41.
Lissodesmus piscator     DOI

Mesibov, R. and Rodriguez, J. (2020) A new genus and species of narrow-range millipede (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 966: 1-8.
Kebodesmus zonarius     DOI