Thalassisobates littoralis, Seil Island, Scotland. Photograph copyright Tony Barber
Introduction | Pauropoda | Symphyla | Chilopoda | Diplopoda | Literature | Images | Log in

Myriapods taxon details

Ommatoiulus sabulosus (Linnaeus, 1758)

terrestrial
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 640 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

(of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
Myriapods (2021). Ommatoiulus sabulosus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/myriapoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151195 on 2026-03-18
Date
action
by
2005-04-05 13:51:48Z
created
2009-05-06 16:19:32Z
changed

original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 640 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

original description (of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

basis of record Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Risso, A. (1826-1827). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. <em>[book series].</em> 400 pp., 13 pls. [volumes 1-5. Paris, F.G. Levrault. vol. 3. Mammifères. Oiseaux. Poissons / vol. 4. Mollusques. Annélides / vol. 5. Crustacés. Myriapodes, scorpionides, arachnides et acarides. Insectes. Vers intestinaux. Radiaires. Zoophytes]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/58984
page(s): 149 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Blower, J.G. (1985) Millipedes. Linnean Society Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) 35. E.J.Brill/Dr W.Backhuys, London, Leiden, Koln, Kobenhavn. [details] 

additional source Lee, P. (2006) Atlas of the Millipedes (Diplopoda) of Britain and Ireland. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow [details] 

additional source Kime, R.D. (1999) The continental distribution of some British and Irish Millipedes. Bull.Brit.Myriapod Gp. 15:33-76 [details] 

additional source Lucas, H. (1840). Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Myriapodes. <em>P. Duménil, Paris.</em> 600 pp. + 46 plates (inclusive)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30739516
page(s): 530 [details] 

additional source Strasser, K. (1978). Diplopodi del Piemonte. Bollettino del musei civico di storia naturale di Verona, 5: 141-173. Verona
page(s): 168 [details] 

additional source Tischler, W. (1980). Asseln (Isopoda) und Tausendfüßer (Myriopoda) eines Stadtparks im Vergleich mit der Umgebung der Stadt. Drosera, 80: 41-52. Oldenburg
page(s): 44 [details] 

additional source Ceuca, T. (1992). Quelques aspects sur la faunistique l'écologie et la zoogeographie des diplopodes de la Région Balkanique. Bericht des naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck, Supplementum, 411-429. Innsbruck
page(s): 426 [details] 

additional source Jawlowski, H. (1930). Uwagi o niektórych gatunkach rodzaju Leptoiulus Verh., wraz z opisemkilu nowych form z poludniowej Polski. Bemerkungen über einige Arten der Gattung Leptoiulus Verh., nebst Beschreibung einiger neuen Formen aus Süd-Polen. Annales Musei Zoologici Polonici, 9(3): 21-28. Warszawa
page(s): 75 [details] 

additional source Kurnik, I.; Thaler, K. (1985). Weitere Diplopoden-Fallenfänge in Nordtirol (Österreich) (Myriapoda: Diplopoda). Bericht des naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck, 72: 145-154. Innsbruck
page(s): 145 [details] 

additional source Latzel, R. (1884). Die Myriopoden der Österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie. Zweite Hälfte. Die Symphylen, Pauropoden und Diplopoden. 1-414. Wien
page(s): 327 [details] 

additional source Mauriès, J.-P. (1971). Diplopodes épigés et cavernicoles des Pyrénées Espagnoles et des Monts Cantabriques. IV-V. Blaniuides et iulides. Bulletin de la Société d'histoire naturelle de Toulouse, 107: 103-116. Toulouse
page(s): 115 [details] 

additional source Pedroli-Christen, A. (1993). Faunistique des mille-pattes de Suisse (Diplopoda) - Faunistik der Tausendfüssler der Schweiz (Diplopoda). Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae, 14: 1-167, i-lxii. Neuchâtel
page(s): 87 [details] 

additional source Pocock, R. I. (1895). Contributions to the knowledge of the Diplopoda of Liguria. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, serie 2.</em> 14: 505-525., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7940545
page(s): 514 [details] 

additional source Rothenbühler, H. (1899). Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Myriapodenfauna der Schweiz. Revue suisse de zoologie, 6: 199-271. Genève, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10340630
page(s): 259 [details] 

additional source Thaler, K. (1982). Fragmenta Faunistica Tirolensia - V (Arachnida: Aranei; Crustaceae: Isopoda, Oniscoidea; Myriapoda: Diplopoda; Insecta: Saltatoria). Bericht des naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck, 69: 53-78. Innsbruck
page(s): 58 [details] 

additional source Thaler, K.; Knoflach, B.; Meyer, E. (1993). Fragmenta Faunistica Tirolensia - X (Arachnida, Acari: Caeculidae; Myriapoda: Diplopoda; Insecta, Nematocera: Limoniidae, Sciaridae). Bericht des naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck, 80: 311-325. Innsbruck
page(s): 318 [details] 

additional source Verhoeff, K. W. (1894). Beiträge zur Diplopoden-Fauna Tirols. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 44: 9-34, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42804802
page(s): 30 [details] 

additional source Voigtländer, K.; Hauser, H. (1999). Fortschritte in der Kenntnis der Diplopoden der Oberlausitz. Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft der Oberlausitz, 7-8: 105-117. Görlitz
page(s): 108 [details] 

additional source Foddai, D.; Minelli, A.; Scheller, U.; Zapparoli, M. (1995). Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, Symphyla. In: Minelli, A.; Ruffo, S.; La Posta, S. [Ed.], Checklist delle Specie della Fauna Italiana, 32/33, 1-35. Bologna
page(s): 27 [details] 

additional source Brandt, J. F. (1841). Generis Juli specierum enumeratio, adjectis plurium, quae hucusque nondum innotuerunt specierum brevibus descriptionibus ad Musei Academiae Scientifiarum Petropolitanae specimina factis. <em>Bulletin Scientifique publié par l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg.</em> 8 (7): 97 -128. St. Petersburg., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44344298
page(s): 101 [details] 

additional source Gervais, P. (1837). Études pour servir á l'histoire naturelle des Myriapodes. <em>Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zoologie, série 2, tome 7: 35-60, plate 4b.</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2254777
page(s): 46 [details] 

additional source Gervais, P. (1847). Myriapodes. In: Walckenaer, Hist. natur. des Insectes. Aptères IV, 4: 1-623. Paris, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32961491
page(s): 139 [details] 

additional source Koch, C.L. (1847). Den Verzeichnissen und Berichtigungen zu Deutschlands Crustaceen, Myriapoden und Arachniden und ein System der Myriapoden. [The lists and corrections to Germany's crustaceans, myriapods and arachnids and a system of the myriapods.]. <em>In: Panzer, G.W.F. & Herrich-Schäffer, A. (eds.), Kritische Revision der Insectenfaune Deutschlands.</em> 3: 1-272, pls. 1-10., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33700094
page(s): 112 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Newport, G. (1844). A list of the species of Myriapoda, order Chilognatha, contained in the cabinets of the British Museum, with description of a new genus and thirty-two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 13: 263-270. London, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2286941
page(s): 267 [details] 

additional source Voigtländer, K.; Düker, C. (2001). Distribution and species grouping of millipedes (Myriapoda, Diplopoda) in dry biotopes in Saxony-Anhalt/Eastern Germany. European Journal of Soil Biology, 37: 325-328, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s1164-5563(01)01104-9
page(s): 326 [details] 

additional source Brandt, J. F. (1833). Tentaminum quorundam monographicorum Insecta Myriapoda Chilognathi Latreillii spectantium prodromus. Bulletin de la Societé Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 6: 194-209. Moscow, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45989137
page(s): 201 [details] 

additional source Daday, J. (1889). A magyarországi Myriopodák Magánrajza [Myriopoda regni Hungariae]. 1-126. Budapest, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63973307
page(s): 55 [details] 

additional source Meinert, F. V. A. (1868). Danmarks chilognather. Naturhistorisk Tidskrift, 3. Raekke, 5: 1-32. Kjöbenhavn
page(s): 11 [details] 

additional source Brandt, J. F. (1841). Recueil de mémoires relatifs a l'ordre des Insectes Myriapodes, et lus à l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. 1-189. St. Petersburg
page(s): 83 [details] 

additional source Tajovský, K. (2001). Millipedes (Diplopoda) of the Czech Republic. <em>Myriapodologica Czecho-Slovaca.</em> 1: 11-24.
page(s): 17; note: citation of species name [details] 

additional source Stoev, P. E. (2003). Diversity and conservation significance of the centipede (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) in Rila Monastery Nature Park. 134-138. Rila
page(s): 136 [details] 

additional source Voigtländer, K. (2006). Mass occurrences and swarming behaviour of millipedes (Diplopoda: Julidae) in Eastern Germany. Peckiana, 4: 181-187
page(s): 182; note: citation of species name [details] 

additional source Spelda, J. (2006). Improvements in the knowledge of the myriapod fauna of southern Germany between 1988 and 2005 (Myriapoda: Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, Symphyla). Peckiana, 4 (2005): 101-129
page(s): 106 [details] 

additional source Leach, W.E. (1816 [1815]). A tabular View of the external Characters of Four Classes of Animals, which Linné arranged under Insecta, with the Distribution of the Genera comprising Three of these Classes into Orders &c. and Descriptions of several New Genera and Species. <em>The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 11(2): 306-400., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/756873
page(s): 377 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Kime, R. D.; Enghoff, H. (2017). Atlas of European millipedes 2: Order Julida (Class Diplopoda). <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 346: 1–299., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.346
page(s): 143 [details] 

additional source Akkari, N.; Gilgado, J. D.; Ortuño, V. M.; Enghoff, H. (2018). Out of the dark void: Ommatoiulus longicornis n. sp., a new julid from Spain (Diplopoda, Julida) with notes on some troglobiomorphic traits in millipedes. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4420(3): 415-429., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4420.3.7
page(s): table 2 [details] 

additional source Kocourek, P.; Dolejš, P.; Kovaříková, A. (2023). Atlas rozšíření mnohonožek v České republice / Atlas of the Millipedes of the Czech Republic.
page(s): 111-112; note: Detailed distribution data. [details] 

additional source Haľková, B.; Drabová, M.; Mock, A. (2021). An annotated checklist of millipede fauna from Slovakia, with ecological and biogeographic characteristics. <em>Biodiversity Data Journal.</em> 9., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.9.e71495
page(s): 15 [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Ecology As well as other habitats, this is characteristic of duneland & often seen in large numbers on the foreshore adjacent to duneland (Blower, 1985) [details]

Website and databases developed and hosted by VLIZ · Page generated 2026-04-18 GMT · contact: Tony Barber