Steneurytion hawaiiensis is a species of centipede in the Geophilidae family. It was described in 1953 by American myriapodologist Ralph Vary Chamberlin.[1][2] This species is known from a single male specimen measuring 28 mm in length with 39 pairs of legs.[3]
Steneurytion hawaiiensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
Class: | Chilopoda |
Order: | Geophilomorpha |
Family: | Geophilidae |
Genus: | Steneurytion |
Species: | S. hawaiiensis
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Binomial name | |
Steneurytion hawaiiensis (Chamberlin, 1953)[1]
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Distribution
editThe species occurs in the Hawaiian Islands. The type locality is Hawaii.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Chamberlin, RV (1953). "Geophiloid chilopods of the Hawaiian and other Oceanic islands of the Pacific". Great Basin Naturalist. 13: 75–85 [82].
- ^ a b Bonato L.; Chagas Junior A.; Edgecombe G.D.; Lewis J.G.E.; Minelli A.; Pereira L.A.; Shelley R.M.; Stoev P.; Zapparoli M. (2016). "ChiloBase 2.0". A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese, University of Padua. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
- ^ Bonato, Lucio; Foddai, Donatella; Minelli, Alessandro (2004). "The Centipede Order Geophilomorpha in the Hawaiian Islands (Chilopoda)" (PDF). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 78: 13–32 [26].