Tasmanophilus spenceri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Zelanophilidae
Genus: Tasmanophilus
Species:
T. spenceri
Binomial name
Tasmanophilus spenceri
(Pocock, 1901)[1]

Tasmanophilus spenceri is a species of centipede in the Zelanophilidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand. It was first described in 1901 by British zoologist Reginald Innes Pocock. The species epithet spenceri honours British-Australian evolutionary biologist Baldwin Spencer.[1][2]

Description

This species can reach 23 mm in length, and both males and females have 39 pairs of legs.[3][4] The last legs in the male are very broad and thick.[4] This species features not only the smallest size in the family Zelanophilidae but also the fewest legs in this family.[5]

Distribution

The species occurs in the South Island. The type locality is The Bluff, near Invercargill in the Southland Region.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Pocock, RI (1901). "The Chilopoda or centipedes of the Australian Continent". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7 (8): 451–463 [462].
  2. 1 2 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 21 March 2023.
  3. ↑ Crabill, R.E. (1962). "Concerning Chilopod Types in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I (Chilopoda : Geophilomorpha : Scolopendromorpha)". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 5 (56): 505–510.
  4. 1 2 Archey, Gilbert (1936). "Revision of the Chilopoda of New Zealand". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 2 (1): 43–70 [47]. ISSN 0067-0464 – via JSTOR.
  5. ↑ 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.


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