Species Tuoba laticeps (Pocock, 1891)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Geophilus laticeps 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 [220].
• Geophilus hartmeyeri 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. [158].
• Geophilus hartmeyeri Attems, C.G. 1914. Die Indo-Australischen Myriopoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 80: 1-398 [127].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Attems, C.G. 1914. Die Indo-Australischen Myriopoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 80: 1-398 [127, 130] (Geophilus hartmeyeri [in part])
• Crabill, R.E. 1968. On the true identities of Tuoba and Nesogeophilus (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 70(4): 345 [345] (Geophilus hartmeyeri [in part]; also incorrectly synonymised Tuoba xylophagus (Attems, 1903) with this species, see Jones, R.E. 1998. On the species of Tuoba (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) in Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and New Britain. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 333–346 [337])

 

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

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, marine, predator, soil dweller, solitary, terrestrial.

 

General References

Attems, C.G. 1903. Synopsis der Geophiliden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 18: 155-302 [262] (as Geophilus (Aporophilus) laticeps)

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. [159] (distribution)

Attems, C.G. 1914. Die Indo-Australischen Myriopoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 80: 1-398 [130] (as Geophilus (?) laticeps)

Attems, C.G. 1929. Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha. Das Tierreich, Lief. 52. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. 388 pp. [186, 328 fig. 174] (as Geophilus laticeps; Nesogeophilus hartmeyeri)

Brölemann, H.W. 1931. Myriapodes recuillis par Madame Pruvot en Nouvelle Calédonie et Aux Loyalty. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 72: 275-628 [314] (Algerophilus hartmeyeri)

Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [53, 54] (Geophilus hartmeyeri (in part))

Crabill, R.E. 1962. Concerning chilopod types in the British Museum (Natural History). Part 1. Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Scolopendromorpha). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13(5): 505-510 [506] (as Nesogeophilus laticeps)

Jones, R.E. 1998. On the species of Tuoba (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) in Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and New Britain. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 333-346 [337, 340 figs 12-23] (Tuoba laticeps; distribution)

Mesibov, R. 1986. A Guide to Tasmanian Centipedes. Hobart : R. Mesibov 64 pp. [54] (as Nesogeophilus laticeps)

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

 

History of changes

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