Myriapods taxon details
original description
(of Scolopendra forficata Linnaeus, 1758) 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 
basis of record
Barber, A.D. (2009a) Centipedes. Linnean Society Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) 58. Field Studies Council, Shrewsbury. [details]
additional source
Barber, A.D. & Keay, A.N. (1988) Provisional Atlas of the Centipedes of the British Isles. NERC, Huntingdon, UK [details]
From editor or global species database
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.
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From editor or global species database
To NHMUK collection (Lithobius forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758); NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9420481)
Hosted externally
Unreviewed
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 098191)
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