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The millipedes of Barrow Island, Western Australia (Diplopoda)
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posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00 authored by C Car, Megan ShortMegan Short, Cuong HuynhCuong Huynh, M HarveySix species of millipedes are recorded from Barrow Island, including three species of pin-cushion millipedes of the order Polyxenida, Lophoturus madecassus (Marquet and Condé, 1950) (Lophoproctidae), Unixenus mjoebergi (Verhoeff, 1924) (Polyxenidae) and Phryssonotus novaehollandiae (Silvestri, 1923) (Synxenidae), a single species of the order Spirobolida, Speleostrophus nesiotes Hoffman, 1994 (Trigoniulidae), and two species of the order Polydesmida, Boreohesperus dubitalis Car and Harvey, 2013 (Paradoxosomatidae) and one species of the family Haplodesmidae (genus and species indet.). Lophoturus madecassus is circum-tropical in distribution, Unixenus mjoebergi and Phryssonotus novaehollandiae are found also on mainland Australia, but the other three species are endemic to the island. Speleostrophus nesiotes is a highly modified troglobiotic species, currently listed as threatened by the Western Australian government. It is unclear at present whether the haplodesmid specimen is a troglobite.
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Records of the Western Australian museum : supplement 83 : the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow IslandVolume
83Pagination
209 - 219Publisher
Western Australian MuseumLocation
Perth, W. A.ISSN
0313-122XLanguage
engPublication classification
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