Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Rhysida polyacantha L.E. Koch, 1985

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Species Rhysida polyacantha L.E. Koch, 1985

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


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)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: N coastal
    • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf
    • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

General References

Koch, L.E. 1985. The taxonomy of Australian centipedes of the genus Rhysida Wood (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae: Otostigminae). Journal of Natural History 19: 205-214 [206, 210, 212 figs 1, 4] (distribution—"In Western Australia in the far north and also in the Hammersley Range; in the northern part of the Northern Territory; in Queensland in the north at North Claudie River and on Mornington Island and further south at Powella Station in central Queensland")

 

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)