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Corresponding author: Robert Evan Mesibov (robert.mesibov@gmail.com)
Academic editor: Jason Bond
Received: 19 Jul 2017 | Accepted: 07 Sep 2017 | Published: 09 Sep 2017
© 2017 Robert Mesibov
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Mesibov R (2017) New records for millipedes from southern Chile (Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae; Polyzoniida: Siphonotidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e15919. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e15919
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Millipedes from 1983 collections by the author in southern Chile have been identified and registered as specimen lots at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) in Launceston, Tasmania.
Collection and specimen data from the new QVMAG specimen lots have been archived in Darwin Core format together with a KML file of occurrences. The 31 occurrence records in the Darwin Core Archive list 13 millipede taxa from 16 sites in Llanquihue and Osorno provinces, Chile.
Polydesmida; Dalodesmidae; Polyzoniida; Siphonotidae
The millipede fauna of southern South America is poorly known
The occurrence data are being made available to assist future studies of the millipede fauna of southern South America. The specimen lots are available for loan from QVMAG.
Millipedes were opportunistically hand-collected by the author during visits to forests in Chile's Llanquihue and Osorno provinces in 1983. Most were found in or under rotting logs. Millipedes were placed in ca 75% methylated spirits in Chile and transferred to 75-80% ethanol at QVMAG. Using my 1983 field notes, Google Maps, Google Earth and online maps of southern Chile, I georeferenced the collecting localities in 2017 to a spatial uncertainty of ±1000 m or less in most cases.
Llanquihue and Osorno provinces in southern Chile
-42.960 and -40.160 Latitude; -74.089 and -72.167 Longitude.
Rank | Scientific Name |
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family | Dalodesmidae Cook, 1896 |
family | Siphonotidae Cook, 1895 |
By agreement with QVMAG, the data in the Darwin Core Archive are made available on a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
Archive containing the four Darwin Core files citations.txt, occurrence.txt, rights.txt and meta.xml, and a KML file organised by taxon, with QVMAG registration number and spatial uncertainty as additional information (in pop-up balloon). The file occurrence.txt contains all occurrence and collecting event data.
Column label | Column description |
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occurrenceID | An identifier for the Occurrence |
institutionCode | The acronym in use by the institution having custody of the objects referred to in the record |
collectionCode | The name identifying the collection from which the record was derived |
catalogNumber | A unique identifier for the record within the collection |
basisOfRecord | The specific nature of the data record |
individualCount | The total number of specimens in the registered specimen lot |
sex | Number of males and/or females |
lifeStage | Number of adults and/or juveniles |
preparations | Preservation method for the specimens |
recordedBy | Full name of the collector |
kingdom | Taxonomic kingdom of the taxon |
phylum | Taxonomic phylum of the taxon |
class | Taxonomic class of the taxon |
order | Taxonomic order of the taxon |
family | Taxonomic family of the taxon |
genus | Taxonomic genus of the taxon, if known |
specificEpithet | Taxonomic species name of the taxon, if known |
scientificNameAuthorship | Author and year of the taxon |
taxonRank | Taxonomic rank of the taxon |
scientificName | Full scientific name of the taxon; genus+species+author, year if known |
identifiedBy | Full name of the taxon identifier |
dateIdentified | Date in YYYY-MM-DD format when the taxon was identified |
identificationRemarks | Notes (in selected cases) on the identification |
locality | Location of the collection site in words |
decimalLatitude | Latitude of the collection site in decimal degrees to four decimal places |
decimalLongitude | Longitude of the collection site in decimal degrees to four decimal places |
geodeticDatum | The datum used for decimalLatitude and decimalLongitude |
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters | The horizontal distance (in meters) from the given decimalLatitude and decimalLongitude describing the smallest circle containing the whole of the location |
eventDate | Collection date in YYYY-MM-DD format |
habitat | Notes on the forest around the collection site |
samplingProtocol | The method used for collection in the field |
continent | The name of the continent in which the location occurs |
country | The name of the country in which the location occurs |
countryCode | The two-letter ISO abbreviation for the country |
stateProvince | The name of the province in which the location occurs |
georeferencedBy | The full name of the georeferencer |
georeferencedDate | The date in YYYY-MM-DD format on which the collection site was georeferenced |
georeferenceSources | The data sources used to georeference the collection site |
The 31 occurrence records in the Darwin Core Archive list 13 millipede taxa from 16 sites in southern Chile. Ten of the 13 taxa (24 samples) are named species of Dalodesmidae (Polydesmida), one sample contains a possibly new species in the genus Tsagonus Chamberlin, 1957 (Dalodesmidae) and two samples contain only unidentifiable female dalodesmids. The last taxon (six samples) is Siphonotidae (Polyzoniida).
The Dalodesmidae identified to species are: Abatodesmus velosoi Demange & Silva, 1971, Anaulacodesmus bifidus Golovatch, 2014, A. carinobtusus Silvestri, 1903, A. levissimus Attems, 1898, Pleonaraius pachyskeles Attems, 1898, Semnosoma eskovi Golovatch, 2014, Trienchodesmus gayanus (Gervais, 1847), Tsagonus muermo Chamberlin, 1957, T. nahuelbutae Chamberlin, 1957 and T. osorno Chamberlin, 1957. A male Tsagonus from forest at Lago San Antonio in the south of Chiloé island is close to T. silvestrii Demange & Silva, 1976 but may be a new species.
The Siphonotidae are tentatively referred to Burinia, following