Cocacolaria
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Ordo: Diplopoda
Familia: Trichopolydesmidae
Name
Cocacolaria Hoffman, 1987 – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Diagnosis
19 (♂) or 20 (♀) segments, pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga poorly developed, 3 rows of sharp long metatergal setae, metatergal sculpture (bosses) unusually high; gonopod telopodites subfalcate, crossing mesally, very strongly exposed (gonocoel small); sl a small branchlet at midway along telopodite; sph distal to sl unipartite, large, bifid and rather simple.
Type species
Cocacolaria hauseri Hoffman, 1987, by original designation.
Remarks
This genus remains monobasic, its sole constituent species being quite widespread in Melanesia. Cocacolaria hauseri is redescribed below, based on samples from Vanuatu.