Four new species of Cleidogona Cook & Collins, 1895 (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Cleidogonidae) from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA
Snyder BA and Shear WA. 2025. Four new species of Cleidogona Cook & Collins, 1895 (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Cleidogonidae) from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Zootaxa. 5722(2):249–264
ABSTRACT: We provide an update to our knowledge of the millipede fauna of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee, USA. In addition to one new park record (Cleidogona jocassee Hoffman, 1950a), we describe four new species of millipedes: Cleidogona chilhoweensis sp. nov., Cleidogona columbicauda sp. nov., Cleidogona hendrixi sp. nov., and Cleidogona sparta sp. nov. These bring the number of described Cleidogona to 93 and Cleidogona known from the park to 10 species.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Snyder, Bruce; Shear, William
- Units
- GRSM
- Keywords
- All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, ATBI, biodiversity, Chordeumatida, Cleidogona chilhoweensis, Cleidogona columbicauda, Cleidogona hendrix, Cleidogona jocassee, Cleidogona sparta, Cleidogonidae, Diplopoda, eastern North America, Lake Chilhowee, new species, Purchase Knob, southeastern United States