Australiophilus ferrugineus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Zelanophilidae
Genus: Australiophilus
Species:
A. ferrugineus
Binomial name
Australiophilus ferrugineus
Hutton, 1877[1]
Synonyms
  • Geophilus huttoni Pocock,1891
  • Geophilus polyporus Haase,1887

Australiophilus ferrugineus is a species of centipede in the Zelanophilidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand. It was first described in 1877 by New Zealand biologist Frederick Hutton.[1][2] Since then, authorities have recognized two junior synonyms,[2] deeming Geophilus huttoni a synonym in 1936[3] and Geophilus polyporus a synonym in 2014.[4]

Description

This species can have as few as 95 pairs of legs in males[5][4] or as many as 109 leg pairs in females[6] and can reach 120 mm in length,[3] the maximum size recorded in the family Zelanophilidae.[7]

Distribution

The type locality is Wellington and Otago.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Hutton, FW (1877). "Descriptions of new species of New-Zealand Myriopoda". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 20 (4): 114–117 [115].
  2. 1 2 3 Bonato L.; Chagas Junior A.; Edgecombe G.D.; Lewis J.G.E.; Minelli A.; Pereira L.A.; Shelley R.M.; Stoev P.; Zapparoli M. (2016). "ChiloBase 2.0". A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese, University of Padua. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  3. 1 2 Archey, Gilbert (1936). "Revision of the Chilopoda of New Zealand". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 2 (1): 43–70 [52-53]. ISSN 0067-0464 – via JSTOR.
  4. 1 2 Bonato, Lucio; Drago, Leandro; Murienne, Jerome (2014). "Phylogeny of Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) inferred from new morphological and molecular evidence". Cladistics. The International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society. 30 (5): 485–507 [507]. doi:10.1111/cla.12060. PMID 34794246. S2CID 86204188.
  5. ↑ Haase, Erich (1887). "Die Indisch-Australischen Myriopoden. Pt. I. Chilopoden". Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden (in German). 1 (5): 1-118 [110-111] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  6. ↑ Pocock, R.I. (1891). "Descriptions of some new Geophilidae in the collection of the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (6)8 (43): 215-227 [223-224] – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  7. ↑ Bonato, Lucio; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Zapparoli, Marzio (2011). "Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview". In Minelli, Alessandro (ed.). The Myriapoda. Volume 1. Leiden: Brill. pp. 363–443. ISBN 978-90-04-18826-6. OCLC 812207443.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
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