Scolopendra gigantea Linnaeus 1758
Creators
- 1. Laboratorio Especial de Toxinologia Aplicada, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, Butantã, CEP- 05503 - 900, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
- 2. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
- 3. Departamento de Geologia, Instituto de Geociências, CCMN, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, 274 Cidade Universitaria, CEP- 21941 - 916, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Description
Scolopendra gigantea Linnaeus, 1758
Material examined. ICN-M.Ch-0004, 1 specimen, Atlántico, near Barranquilla, Región el Guajaro La Peña, J.M. Ariano, 20-I- 1968, 20 m; ICN-M.Ch-0054, 1 specimen, Sucre, San Marcos, La Florida, Grupo Sistemática Animal, 21-IV- 2004, 38 m; ICN-M.Ch-0055, 3 specimen, Atlántico, near Barranquilla, Región del Guajaro, La Peña, J. M. Ariano, 20-I- 1968, 20 m; ICN-M.Ch-0094, 1 specimen, Bolívar, Sta. Catalina, Hda. El Ceibal, J. Lynch, 3-X- 1999, 20 m; ICN-M.Ch-0095, 9 specimens, Km 5 Carretera a Pto Colombia, 15-VIII-1964; ICN-M.Ch-0123, 1 specimen, Magdalena, PNN Tayrona, **- VI-2000, ICN-M.Ch-0124, 1 specimen, Magdalena, PN Isla de Salamanca, G. Toro; MNHN (N241), 3 specimens, Cartagena, M. Buret, 1835; MCZ 26467, 2 specimens, near Rio Frio, P.J. Darlington.
Distribution. Caribbean coastline of northern South America to Surinam; Venezuela, Trinidad, Aruba and Curaçao (Kraepelin 1903; Attems 1930; Bücherl 1942; Shelley & Kiser 2000; Shelley 2006). All records from Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, St. Thomas, and U. S. Virgin Islands represent accidental human introductions or labelling errors (Shelley 2006). In Colombia it is known only from the Caribbean Región.
Altitudinal range. 9 to 40 m.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MCZ , MNHN
- Event date
- 1964-08-15 , 1968-01-20 , 1999-10-03 , 2004-04-21
- Family
- Scolopendridae
- Genus
- Scolopendra
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- N241
- Order
- Scolopendromorpha
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- gigantea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1964-08-15 , 1968-01-20 , 1999-10-03 , 2004-04-21
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scolopendra gigantea Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Chagas-Jr, Chaparro, Jiménez, Triana, Flórez & Seoane, 2014
References
- Kraepelin, K. (1903) Revision der Scolopendriden. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg, 20, 1 - 276.
- Attems, C. (1930) Myriapoda 2. Scolopendromorpha. Das Tierreich, 54. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 308 pp.
- Bucherl, W. (1942) Catalogo dos quilopodos da zona neotropica. Memorias do Instituto Butantan, 15, 251 - 372.
- Shelley, R. M. & Kiser, S. B. (2000) Neotype designation and a diagnostic account for the centipede, Scolopendra gigantea L. 1758, with an account of S. galapagoensis Bollman 1889 (Chilopoda Scolopendromorpha Scolopendridae). Tropical Zoology, 13, 159 - 170.
- Shelley, R. M. (2006) A chronological catalog of the New World species of Scolopendra L., 1758 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae). Zootaxa, 1253, 1 - 50.