Centipedes and Millipeds (Arthropoda: Diplopoda, Chilopoda) from Saba Island, Lesser Antilles, and a Consolidation of Major References on the Myriapod Fauna of “Lesser” Caribbean Islands
The chilopod, Cryptops hortensis (Donovan, 1810) (Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae), and the diplopods, Pseudospirobolellus avernus (Butler, 1876) (Spirobolida: Pseudospirobolellidae) and Oxidus gracilis (C. L. Koch, 1847) (Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae), are newly recorded from Saba Island, Lesser Antilles, which also harbors one additional scolopendromorph and four more chilognath millipeds. Except for the plausibly native scolopendrid centipede, Scolopendra alternans Leach, 1813, all are human introductions. Concentrated sampling is needed in the cloud/elfin forest atop Mt. Scenery, where in... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | periodicalpart |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2012 |
Schlagwörter: | ddc:590 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27658114 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25565 |