Psammodesmus cos Cook, 1896

Recuero, Ernesto & Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, 2018, A new distinctive species of Barydesmus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Platyrhacidae) from Ecuador, with an annotated bibliographical checklist of the American Platyrhacidae, Zootaxa 4482 (2), pp. 245-273 : 267

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.2.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5963548
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scientific name	Psammodesmus cos Cook, 1896
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Psammodesmus cos Cook, 1896 View in CoL

Psammodesmus cos Cook, 1896a: 12 View in CoL : 52 (original description); Hoffman 1953b: 304 (in dichotomous key); Martínez-Torres 2016: 49 (considered as species inquirenda).

Types: Holotype from Colombia, without further locality. Initially at the ANSP, it is currently lost ( Hoffman 1953b; Martínez-Torres 2016).

Distribution: Colombia, without a precise locality.

Comments: to stabilize the use of Psammodesmus it would be advisable to designate a neotype matching Cook's brief description.