Australiophilus ferrugineus

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]

Australiophilus ferrugineus
Scientific 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

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. Hutton, FW (1877). "Descriptions of new species of New-Zealand Myriopoda". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 20 (4): 114–117 [115].
  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 20 March 2023.
  3. Archey, Gilbert (1936). "Revision of the Chilopoda of New Zealand. Part 1". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 2: 43–70. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42905967. Wikidata Q58676585.
  4. 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.


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