Scolopendra alternans

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scolopendromorpha
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Subphylum: Myriapoda Classis: Chilopoda Subclassis: Pleurostigmophora Ordo: Scolopendromorpha

Scolopendra alternans Leach, 1815.

Type locality: Unknown. For neotype (Per Shelley, 2002): "British Virgin Islands, Tortola, Fat Hog's Bay"

Typus: Holotype [Presumed lost]. Neotype, legit A. Penn, 12.III.1984.

Scolopendra iæqualis Leach, 1814: 408, 436). (Nomen oblitum, see Mercurio, 2016). (See also Scolopendra sp. Leach, 1815: 776 legend for Pl. CCXXI [=221], fig.10.
Scolopendra inequalis Leach, 1814. (As above, subsequent spelling variant in Mercurio, 2016).
Scolopendra alternans Leach, 1815: 383. (Original combination) [cited in Leach, 1817]; Leach, 1817: 41, Tab. 138.

(See also "Enc Brit. Suppl. 1 431, pl.22" cited in Leach, 1817)

Heterotypic
Scolopendra complanata Newport, 1844: pp? (Junior subjective synonym of alternans in ?).
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Scolopendra cubensis Saussure, 1858: pp? (Junior subjective synonym of alternans in ?).
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Scolopendra grayi Newport, 1844: pp? (Junior subjective synonym of alternans in ?).
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Scolopendra hirsutipes Bollman, 1893: pp? (Junior subjective synonym of alternans in ?).
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Scolopendra incerta Newport, 1845: pp? (Junior subjective synonym of alternans in ?).
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Scolopendra longipes Wood, 1862: pp? (Junior subjective synonym of alternans in ?).
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Scolopendra multispinata Newport, 1844: pp? (Junior subjective synonym of alternans in ?).
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Scolopendra sagraea Gervais, 1837: pp? (Junior subjective synonym of alternans in ?).
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Scolopendra testacea Wood, 1861: pp? (Junior subjective synonym of alternans in ?).
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Scolopendra torquata Wood, 1861: pp? (Junior subjective synonym of alternans in ?).
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Leach, W.E. 1813-1815. Crustaceology. In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh (Dates suggested in MilliBase as 7(1): 383–384 [1813] BHL, 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815]). Reference page.
Leach, W.E. 1816 ["1815"]. XXXI. A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animals, which Linné arranged under Insecta; with the distribution of the genera composing three of these classes into orders, &c and descriptions of several new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 11(2): 306–400. BioStor. BHL Reference page.
Leach, W.E. 1817. The Zoological Miscellany, being descriptions of new or interesting animals. Vol. III. London: R.P. Nodder, v + [1] + 151 pp., pls. 121–150. BHL Reference page.

Mercurio, R. J. 2016. Resurrection of Scolopendra longipes Wood and Scolopendra cubensis Saussure from synonymy with Scolopendra alternans Leach (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae): an enigmatic species-group needing phylogeographic analysis, with an overview on the origin and distribution of centipedes in the Caribbean region. Zootaxa 4111(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.1. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Shelley, R.M. 2002. A synopsis of the North American centipedes of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda). Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir 5: 1–108. Reference page.