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Cormocephalus coynei

Cormocephalus coynei

L.E.Koch, 1984

GBIF:165238648

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Descriptions(1)

Cormocephalus coynei is a species of centipede found on the uninhabited Phillip and Nepean islands to the south of Norfolk Island. It is also known as the Phillip Island centipede. The species was observed on Phillip Island in 1792, but was not formally described until 1984. It can grow up to 23.5 cm, and is reddish brown and orange in colour. The Phillip Island centipede is known for its habit of preying on vertebrates including geckos, skinks, black-winged petrel nestlings and fish, as well as other small arthropods.
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Source Information

English Wikipedia - Species Pages

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Species pages extracted from the English Wikipedia article XML dump from 2022-08-02. Multimedia, vernacular names and textual descriptions are extracted, but only pages with a taxobox or speciesbox template are recognized. See https://github.com/mdoering/wikipedia-dwca for details.

Döring M (2022). English Wikipedia - Species Pages. Wikimedia Foundation. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/c3kkgh accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-21.

LicensePublished 8/2/2022View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
165238648
Dataset Key
cbb6498e-8927-405a-916b-576d00a6289b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2231800
Taxon ID
43663735
Last Crawled
6/16/2026
Last Interpreted
6/16/2026