[6] The genus Neocambrisoma was first described in 1987 by the French myriapodologist Jean-Paul Mauriès of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris to contain the newly discovered type species N. raveni.

The species is named for the Australian arachnologist Robert J. Raven, Curator of Arachnology at the Queensland Museum, who collected the type specimens.

The original description of N. fieldensis is based on a male holotype found in leaf litter in Mount Field National Park in Tasmania.

These modifications are most dramatic in the type species N. raveni, in which the tenth pair is reduced to three segments and become paragonopods.

[2] Millipedes in the genus Neocambrisoma feature anterior gonopods with flagella, an unusual trait shared with three other genera in the family Metopidiotrichidae: Australeuma, Nesiothrix, and Nipponothrix.

[5] To arrive at 32 segments as adults, however, species in this genus must deviate from the anamorphosis usually observed in the order Chordeumatida.

Little is known about post-embryonic development in this genus, but Mauriès found juveniles of the type species N. raveni with 30 segments and 48 pairs of legs.

[3] Mauriès found a larger sample of juveniles in the genus Peterjohnsia, representing the three stages of development leading up to adulthood in females.

The species N. fieldensis has also been recorded only at its type locality (Mount Field National Park in Tasmania).