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Species Cryptops australis Newport, 1845

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Species Cryptops australis Newport, 1845

Distribution

States

Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Also New zealand


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • South Africa

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Queensland: NE coastal
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria: SE coastal
    • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal
  • New Caledonia
  • New Zealand

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, predator, rotting wood, soil dweller, solitary, terrestrial, under bark.

 

General References

Archey, G. 1924. The genus Cryptops (Chilopoda) in New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 2(4): 203-219 [218 pl. 36, figs 5-7] (Cryptops australis; distribution in New Zealand)

Archey, G. 1936. Revision of the Chilopoda of New Zealand. Part 1. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 2(1): 43-70 [68] (Cryptops australis; distribution in New Zealand)

Attems, C.G. 1928. The Myriopoda of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 26: 1-431 [89, 90] (Cryptops australis; distribution in South Africa, Loyalty Islands and New Hebrides)

Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [8] (Cryptops australis)

Fahlander, K. 1939. Chilopoden aus Australien und Tasmanien. Arkiv för Zoologi 31B(1): 1-4 [1] (Cryptops australis; distribution in VIC)

Kraepelin, K. 1903. Revision der Scolopendriden. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 20: 1-276 [58] (Cryptops australis)

Kraepelin, K. 1908. Scolopendridae. pp. 105-128 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Band 2, Lieferung 8. Jena : Gustav Fischer. [106, 108] (Cryptops australis; distribution in WA)

Kraepelin, K. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expedition to Australia 1910–1913. 4. Scolopendriden und Skorpione. Arkiv för Zoologi 10(2): 1-43 [2] (Cryptops australis; distribution in WA)

Lewis, J.G.E. 1999. On the genus Cryptops Leach in Nepal with redescriptions of Cryptops australis Newport and C. doriae Pocock (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha, Cryptopidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 79(1): 19-38 [20 figs 1-9] (as Cryptops (Cryptops) australis, redescription)

Lewis, J.G.E. 2013. A review of the species in the genus Cryptops Leach, 1815 from the Old World and the Australasian region related to Cryptops (Cryptops) doriae Pocock, 1891 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae). Zootaxa 3683(1): 1-34 [6] (diagnosed, notes provided)

Mesibov, R. 1986. A Guide to Tasmanian Centipedes. Hobart : R. Mesibov 64 pp. [42 figs 59-62] (Cryptops australis; distribution in Tasmania)

Pocock, R.I. 1893. Report upon the Myriopoda of the 'Challenger' Expedition, with Remarks upon the Fauna of Bermuda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 11: 121-142, pl. 9 [129] (Cryptops australis; distribution in New Zealand)

Ribaut, H. 1923. Chilopodes de la Nouvelle Calédonie et des îles Loyalty. pp. 1-79 in Sarasin, F. & Roux, J. (eds). Nova Caledonia, Recherches Scientifiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie et aux Îles Loyalty. Paris : A. Zoologie Vol. 3. (Cryptops australis distribution, New Caledonia)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
31-Jul-2013 MODIFIED