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Cormocephalus huttoni Pocock 1893

Description

81. Cormocephalus huttoni Pocock, 1893

Pocock 1893: 128–129 (as Cormocephalus huttoni sp.n.)

Type locality and specimens. Loc. New Zealand.

Dimensions. Length up to 70 millim.

Type material. Syntype (ZMH-A0000626). NEW ZEALAND. No additional data [41°17’N, 174°46’W for Wellington].

Preservation. 1 jar: Label. Cormoc. huttoni Poc. ex Typis Neuseeland, Museum London C. 30. VI.03.

Old type catalogues. Weidner (1960), p. 66, No. 22. Paratype.

Collection remarks. The specimen was donated by the BMNH during the time of Kraepelin’s curatorship.

Current systematic position. Junior synonym of Cormocephalus westwoodi (Newport, 1844) according to L.E. Koch (1983: 828).

Notes

Published as part of Thofern, Detlef, Dupérré, Nadine & Harms, Danilo, 2021, An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg, pp. 1-103 in Zootaxa 4977 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4819677

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZMH-A
Family
Scolopendridae
Genus
Cormocephalus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
ZMH-A0000626
Order
Scolopendromorpha
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Pocock
Species
huttoni
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Cormocephalus huttoni Pocock, 1893 sec. Thofern, Dupérré & Harms, 2021

References

  • Pocock, R. I. (1893) Report upon the Myriapoda of the ' Challenger' Expedition with remarks upon the fauna of Bermuda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 11, 121 - 142. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939308677479
  • Weidner, H. (1960) Die Entomologischen Sammlungen des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums Hamburg. III. Teil Chilopoda und Progoneata. Mitteilungen des Hamburger Zoologischen Museums Hamburg, 58, 57 - 104.
  • Koch, L. E. (1983) Revision of the Australian centipedes of the genus Cormocephalus Newport (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae: Scolopendrinae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 31, 799 - 833. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / zo 9830799