Zoosphaerium Pocock, 1895

Wesener, Thomas & Sagorny, Christina, 2021, Seven new giant pill-millipede species and numerous new records of the genus Zoosphaerium from Madagascar (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Arthrosphaeridae), European Journal of Taxonomy 758 (1), pp. 1-48 : 6-7

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2021.758.1423
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5076188
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scientific name	Zoosphaerium Pocock, 1895
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Treatment

Genus Zoosphaerium Pocock, 1895 View in CoL

Zoosphaerium Pocock, 1895: 410 View in CoL .

Globotherium Brolemann, 1922: 230 View in CoL (formal synonymization in Wesener & Wägele 2008: 9).

Heligmasoma Chamberlin, 1921: 58 View in CoL (formal synonymization in Wesener & Wägele 2008: 9).

See Wesener (2016) for a summary; five additional species have been described since then ( Sagorny & Wesener 2017; Wesener & Anilkumar 2020).

Type species

Sphaerotherium neptunus Butler, 1872 .

Other species included

66 and 11 nomina dubia (including the species described below).

Distribution

Endemic to Madagascar.

Remarks

The diverse genus Zoosphaerium has been divided into six species-groups ( Wesener & Wägele 2008; Wesener 2009). Six additional species are currently not assignable to any group ( Sagorny & Wesener 2017). Four species are only known from females and an additional 11 species are nomina dubia. A key to the species-groups has been published elsewhere (Wesener 2009).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Diplopoda
Order	Sphaerotheriida
Family	Arthrosphaeridae