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Species Cryptops hortensis Leach, 1814

Cryptops hortensis Leach, W.E. 1814. Crustaceology. pp. 383-437 in Brewster, D. Sir (ed.). The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Edinburgh : John Murray Baldwin & Cradocle Vol. 7 (2). [408].
Cryptops bidenticaudatus Selivanoff, A. 1884. Myriapodes de Russie. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 18: 69-121 [109].
Cryptops altantis Pocock, R.I. 1891. Descriptions of some new species of Chilopoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6(8): 152-164 [155].
Cryptops hortensis paucidens Selivanoff, A. 1884. Myriapodes de Russie. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 18: 69-121 [109] [as Cryptops hortensis var. paucidens Selivanoff 1884].

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from Europe.

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)

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drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Tasmania

Palaearctic Region

Ecological Descriptors

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

General References

Attems, C.G. 1930. Myriapoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha. Das Tierreich. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. Vol. Lief. 54 308 pp. [207, 209 figs 254-258] (as Cryptops (Cryptops) hortensis; distribution)

Brölemann, H.W. 1900. Voyage de M. Ch. Alluaud aux Iles Canaries (Nov. 1889–Juin 1890). Myriapods. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 13: 431-452 [436] (Cryptops atlantis)

Brölemann, H.W. 1925. Cryptops parisi Brol. et Cryptops hortensis Leach. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 53: 192-196 [194] (Cryptops hortensis)

Kraepelin, K. 1903. Revision der Scolopendriden. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 20: 1-276 [57] (Cryptops hortensis var. atlantis)

Latzel, R. 1884. [title unknown]. Rouen - Société des Annis des Sciences Naturelles 2 19: 267 [267] (Cryptops hortensis var. paucidens)

Leach, W.E. 1817. The Zoological Miscellany: being descriptions of new, or interesting animals. London : E. Nodder & Son Vol. 3. [42 fig. 139] (Cryptops hortensis; also Cryptops savignyi)

Mesibov, R. 1986. A Guide to Tasmanian Centipedes. Hobart : R. Mesibov 64 pp. [40 figs 54-58] (Cryptops hortensis; distribution)

Ribaut, H. 1915. Biospelologica XXXVI. Notostigmophora. Scolopendromorpha, Geophilomorpha (Myriapodes) (Premiere Serie). Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 55: 323-346 [331 figs 15-17] (Cryptops hortensis)

Verhoeff, K.W. 1901. Beitrage zur Kenntniss paläarktischer Myriopoden, XVI. Zur Vergleichenden Morphologie, Systematik und Geographie der Chilopoden. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum 77: 430-465 [431] (Cryptops hortensis var. pseudopunctatus)

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)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)