Genus Rhysida Wood, 1862

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhysida Wood, H.C. 1862. On the Chilopoda of North America, with a catalogue of all of the specimens in the collection of the Smithonian Institute. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 2(5): 2-52 [40].
• Branchiostoma Newport, G. 1845. Monograph of the class Myriapoda, order Chilopoda. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 19: 349-439 [411] [junior homonym of Branchiostoma Costa, 1834 (Cephalochordata)].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Ethiopia

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Gulf of Carpentaria, N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal
• Indonesia
• Papua New Guinea

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

General References

Attems, C.G. 1930. Myriapoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha. Das Tierreich. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. Vol. Lief. 54 308 pp. (generic synonyms and diagnosis)

Koch, L.E. 1985. The taxonomy of Australian centipedes of the genus Rhysida Wood (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae: Otostigminae). Journal of Natural History 19: 205-214 (taxonomic review and key to species)

Kraepelin, K. 1903. Revision der Scolopendriden. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 20: 1-276 (generic synonyms and diagnosis)

Lawrence, R.F. 1955. A revision of the centipedes (Chilopoda) of Natal and Zululand. Annals of the Natal Museum 13(2): 121-174 (generic synonyms and diagnosis)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED