WoRMS taxon details
Tuoba sydneyensis (Pocock, 1891)
394733 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:394733)
accepted
Species
Algerophilus leptochilus Brolemann, 1931 · unaccepted
Geophilus sydneyensis Pocock, 1891 · unaccepted (basionym)
Honuaphilus alohanus Chamberlin, 1926 · unaccepted
Tuoba curticeps Chamberlin, 1920 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Barber, A. D. (2025). World Database of littoral Myriapoda. Tuoba sydneyensis (Pocock, 1891). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=394733 on 2025-11-14
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Algerophilus leptochilus Brolemann, 1931) Brölemann, H. W. (1931). Myriapodes recueillis en Nouvelle -Calédonie et aux Loyality. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale, 72(2): 275-316. Paris
page(s): 311 [details]
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. <em>Records of the Western Australian Museum.</em> 18(4): 333-346. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 311 [details]
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. <em>Records of the Western Australian Museum.</em> 18(4): 333-346. [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Bonato, L.; Foddai, D.; Minelli, A.; Shelley, R. M. (2004). The centipede order Geophilomorpha in the Hawaiian Islands (Chilopoda). <em>Bishop Museum Occasional Papers.</em> 78: 13-32. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Barber, A. D. (2009). Littoral myriapods. a review. <em>Soil Organisms.</em> 81(3): 735-760., available online at https://www.senckenberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/33_barber.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Barber, A. D. (2009). Littoral myriapods. a review. <em>Soil Organisms.</em> 81(3): 735-760., available online at https://www.senckenberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/33_barber.pdf [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Ecology Western Australia, New South Wales, New Caledonia, New Britain, Solomon Islands: in seagrass litter, under rocks, under crab exuviae, under small logs - all littoral or on beach (Jones, 1998).Hawaii: Kure Is, Laysan, Pearl & Hermes Reef, Midway (Eastern Island, under driftwood on beach, Moloka' Island (3,200ft). Occurs primaily in littoral habitats and is beach dwelling throughout its range; thus it may have reached the Hawaiian Islands without human assistance (Bonato et al, 2004). The relative paucity of colonisers of these islands may, perhaps, have given this species the opportunity to expand into niches outside the strictly littoral. [details]
