Species Sepedonophilus antipodus (Pocock, 1891)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Zelanion librius Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [40].
• Zelanion curtus Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [41].
• Pachymeroides mimeticus Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [45].
• Geophilus (Pachymerium) sitocola Attems, C.G. 1903. Synopsis der Geophiliden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 18: 155-302 [256].
• Geophilus (Pachymerium) schaunislandi Attems, C.G. 1903. Synopsis der Geophiliden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 18: 155-302 [251].
• Geophilus antipoden Pocock, R.I. 1891. Descriptions of some new Geophilidae in the collections of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 8(45): 215-227 [222 pl. 12 fig. 8].

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Tas, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), 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), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Western Australia: SW coastal
• New Zealand

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

General References

Archey, G. 1926. The Chilopoda of the Chatham Islands. Records of the Canterbury Museum 3(1): 39-42 [40, 41 pl. 7 figs 1-3] (as Zelanion librius; New Zealand distribution)

Archey, G. 1936. Revision of the Chilopoda of New Zealand. Part 1. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 2(1): 43-70 [56, 57] (as Zelanion antipodus; distribution)

Attems, C.G. 1911. Myriopoda exkl. Scolopendridae. pp. 147-165 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Gustav Fisher Vol. 3, Lief. 6. [161] (Eurytion sitocola; distribution)

Attems, C.G. 1929. Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha. Das Tierreich, Lief. 52. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. 388 pp. [269, 321 fig. 233] (as Sepedonophilus sitocola and Geophilus antipodum as species inquirendae)

Mesibov, R. 1986. A Guide to Tasmanian Centipedes. Hobart : R. Mesibov 64 pp. [44 figs 63-67] (as Zelanion antipodus; distribution)

Pocock, R.I. 1901. The Chilopoda or centipedes of the Australian continent. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(8): 451-463 [461] (as Necrophloeophagus antipodum)

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] (as Zelanion antipodus; distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)