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Tuoba xylophaga (Attems, 1903) 
AphiaID: 394746

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Myriapoda (Subphylum) > Chilopoda (Class) > Geophilomorpha (Order) > Adesmata (Suborder) > Geophilidae (Family) > Tuoba (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Tuoba Chamberlin, 1920
Synonymised
taxa		  Geophilus xylophaga Attems, 1903 (basionym)
Sources  basis of record: Jones, R.E. (1998) On the species of Tuoba (Chilopoda; Geophilomorpha) in Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and New Britain. Rec.Western Australian Museum 18: 333-346 [details]

basis of record: Archey, G. (1936) Revision of the Chilopoda of New Zealand (Part 1). Rec.Auckland [N.Z.] Inst. 2(1):43-70 [details]

additional source: Johns, P.M. (2009). Myriapoda. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Barber, A.D. (2009b) Littoral myriapods; a review. Soil Organisms 81(3):735-760 [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution New Zealand [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  Distribution: Recorded from sandhills on both islands and on Stewart Island (Archey, 1936) [details]

Habitat: On dead bird, on seaweed washed ashore, supralittoral sand, fine stony beach (driftwood), etc. (Jones, 1998) [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:394746
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-05-09 12:34:06Z  created  Barber, A.D.
2010-07-14 11:50:52Z  changed  Barber, A.D.
  
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  Citation: Barber, A.D. (2013). Tuoba xylophaga (Attems, 1903). In: Barber, A.D. (2013) World database of littoral Myriapoda. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=394746 on 2013-05-22
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