Species Leptogoniulus sorornus (Butler, 1876)

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• Spirostreptus sorornus Butler, A.G. 1876. Preliminary notice of new species of Arachnida & Myriapoda from Rodriguez, collected by Messrs. George Gulliver and H.H. Slater. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 17: 439-446 [445].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH (at least 1 male), Rodriguez Island, Mascarene Islands.

  Secondary source:

   Shelley, R.M. & Lehtinen, P.T. 1999. Diagnoses, synonymies and occurrences of the pantropical millipeds, Leptogoniulus sorornus (Butler) and Trigoniulus corallinus (Gervais) (Spirobolida: Pachybolidae: Trigoniulinae). Journal of Natural History 33(9): 1379-1401.
• Spirobolus suturalis Porat, C.O. von 1876. Om några exotiska Myriopoder. Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 4(7): 1-48 [junior subjective synonym of Leptogoniulus sorornus (Butler, 1876)].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Cocos-Keeling Islands.

  Secondary source:

   Shelley, R.M. & Lehtinen, P.T. 1999. Diagnoses, synonymies and occurrences of the pantropical millipeds, Leptogoniulus sorornus (Butler) and Trigoniulus corallinus (Gervais) (Spirobolida: Pachybolidae: Trigoniulinae). Journal of Natural History 33(9): 1379-1401.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Shelley, R.M. & Lehtinen, P.T. 1999. Diagnoses, synonymies and occurrences of the pantropical millipeds, Leptogoniulus sorornus (Butler) and Trigoniulus corallinus (Gervais) (Spirobolida: Pachybolidae: Trigoniulinae). Journal of Natural History 33(9): 1379-1401

 

Generic Combinations

• Leptogoniulus sorornus (Butler, 1876). —
  Hoffman, R.L. 1994. Studies on Spiroboloid Millipeds. XVIII. Speleostrophus nesiotes, the first known troglobitic spiroboloid milliped, from Barrow Island, Western Australia (Diplopoda: Pachybolidae: Trigoniulinae). Myriapodologica 3: 19-24 [20]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

A pantropical species, spread by commerce; for distribution see Shelley & Lehtinen (1999)

Introduced from unknown country.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Nothing known.

 

General References

Shelley, R.M. & Lehtinen, P.T. 1999. Diagnoses, synonymies and occurrences of the pantropical millipeds, Leptogoniulus sorornus (Butler) and Trigoniulus corallinus (Gervais) (Spirobolida: Pachybolidae: Trigoniulinae). Journal of Natural History 33(9): 1379-1401

 

History of changes

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