ChiloBase 2.0

Recommended citation:
Bonato L., Chagas Junior A.,
Edgecombe G.D. Lewis J.G.E.,
Minelli A., Pereira L.A.,
Shelley R.M., Stoev P.,
Zapparoli M. (2016)
ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue
of Centipedes (Chilopoda).
Available at https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it.

The valid name for Ptychotrema Peters, 1855 is Rhysida Wood, 1862

Ptychotrema Peters, 1855

Original description: Peters W. (1855). Über die Myriapoden im allgemeinen und insbesondere über die in Mossambique beobachteten Arten dieser Familie - Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 14: 75-85, see p. 2.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Branchiostoma lithobioides Newport, 1845 - by subsequent designation

Fixed by: Kraepelin K. (1903). Revision der Scolopendriden - Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten , (2)20: 1-276, see p. 230.

Synonymy: Kraepelin K. (1903). Revision der Scolopendriden - Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten , (2)20: 1-276, see p. 139.

Notes: Introduced as a substitute name for Branchiostoma Newport, 1845. Junior homonym of Ptychotrema Moerch, 1852 (Mollusca). In designating the type species for Rhysida Wood, 1862, Pocock (1891 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, 7: 230) implicitly designated the type species for Ptychotrema according to article 67.8 of ICZN