Thalassisobates littoralis, Seil Island, Scotland. Photograph copyright Tony Barber
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Myriapods taxon details

Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 394580

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Arthropoda > Myriapoda > Chilopoda > Scutigeromorpha > Scutigeridae > Scutigera
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Scutigera Lamarck, 1801
Synonymised
taxa
  Julus araneoides Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  basis of record: Barber, A.D. (2009b) Littoral myriapods; a review. Soil Organisms 81(3):735-760 [details]

additional source: Barber, A.D. (2006) Myriapoda (Centipedes & Millipedes) from the Channel Islands. Bull.British Myriapod & Isopod Group 21: 19-39 [details]

additional source: Pallas, P.S. (1772) Spicilegia Zoologica quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species incombus descriptionibus atque cemmentariis illustrantur. 9: 85 [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Africa [details]
Asia [details]
Europe [details]
North America [details]
North Mediterranean [details]
South America [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (174 publications)
To GenBank (145 nucleotides; 121 proteins)
Notes  Distribution: Probably indigenous to the Mediterranean but extending to much of Europe, Asia, North & South America, Africa, St.Helena, etc. [details]

Ecology: Scutigeromorphs are seen in coastal localities in various parts of the world. Scutigera coleoptrata has been collected amongst large pebbles just above HWM on Jersey (CI) and on the French Channel coast (Barber, 2006) [details]

Editor's comment: Pallas (1772) writes of Julus araneiodes (Scutigera coleoptrata) as "insectum pelagicum ab amico mihi Navarcho quodam inter susceptos in Oceano Atlantico Fuci natatis fasiculos" [details]

Habitat: This species is either supralittoral or can be found in the intertidal zone but does not live there naturally.
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:394580
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Date   action   by
2009-05-06 17:47:09Z  created  Barber, A.D.
2009-05-14 17:34:09Z  changed  Barber, A.D.
2010-07-14 08:54:47Z  changed  Barber, A.D.
  
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  Citation: Barber, A.D. (2013). Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Barber, A.D. (2013) World database of littoral Myriapoda. Accessed through: Barber, A.D. (2013) World database of littoral Myriapoda at http://www.marinespecies.org/myriapoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=394580 on 2013-05-24
  

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