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Species Cryptops megalopora Haase, 1887

Cryptops megalopora Haase, E. 1887. Die Indisch-Australischen Myriopoden. Pt I. Chilopoden. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologische-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 5: 1-118 [80].

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

(Mesibov (1986: 42) says "Tentatively identified".).

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
New Zealand

Ecological Descriptors

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

General References

Archey, G. 1921. Notes on New Zealand Chilopoda. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 53: 181-195 [185] (distribution in New Zealand; gives a translation of Kraepelin's (1903) description)

Archey, G. 1924. The genus Cryptops (Chilopoda) in New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 2(4): 203-219 [213, 214 pl. 34 figs 4, 5] (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] (distribution in New Zealand)

Attems, C.G. 1930. Myriapoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha. Das Tierreich. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. Vol. Lief. 54 308 pp. [233] (as Cryptops (Cryptops) megaloporus)

Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [4]

Kraepelin, K. 1903. Revision der Scolopendriden. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 20: 1-276 [51]

Mesibov, R. 1986. A Guide to Tasmanian Centipedes. Hobart : R. Mesibov 64 pp. [36 figs 46-49] (distribution in Tasmania)

Taylor, R.J. 1990. Occurrence of log-dwelling invertebrates in regeneration and old-growth wet sclerophyll forest in southern Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 124(1): 27-34 [31] (distribution in Tasmania)

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)