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

Lithobius forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 394576

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Arthropoda > Myriapoda > Chilopoda > Lithobiomorpha > Lithobiidae > Lithobius
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Lithobius Leach, 1814
Source  additional source: Barber, A.D. & Keay, A.N. (1988) Provisional Atlas of the Centipedes of the British Isles. NERC, Huntingdon, UK [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Brazil [details]
Europe [details]
Greenland [details]
Iceland [details]
Russia [details]
St. Helena [details]
USA [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (375 publications)
To GenBank (55 nucleotides; 85 proteins)
Notes  Ecology: A widespread terrestrial species found in a wide diversity of habitats in the UK and elsewhere including the seashore above HWM. [details]

Habitat: This species is either supralittoral or can be found in the intertidal zone but does not live there naturally.
 [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:394576
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2009-05-06 17:47:09Z  created  Barber, A.D.
2009-05-07 10:22:15Z  changed  Barber, A.D.
2010-07-14 08:54:47Z  changed  Barber, A.D.
  
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  Citation: Barber, A.D. (2013). Lithobius forficatus (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=394576 on 2013-05-25
  

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