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Plutonium zwierleini

Plutonium zwierleini

Cavanna & G.H.Martens, 1881

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Cavanna 1881: 169 – 178 (as Plutonium zwierleini)
Thofern, Detlef, Dupérré, Nadine, Harms, Danilo (2021): An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Zootaxa 4977 (1): 1-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1
Dimensions. Long. max. fronte marg. pos. segm. ult. 100 mm [maximum length from the front edge to the ultimate segment 100 mm]. Lat. max. 10 mm [maximum width 10 mm].
Thofern, Detlef, Dupérré, Nadine, Harms, Danilo (2021): An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Zootaxa 4977 (1): 1-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1
Type locality and specimens. Hab [itat]. Sicilian? [Sicily, Italy] Un. spec. a Dom. Eq. Zwierlein anno 1878 prope Taorminam captum et in Mus. Florent servatum [One specimen collected by Zwierlein 1878 near Taormina and kept in the Museum Florence].
Thofern, Detlef, Dupérré, Nadine, Harms, Danilo (2021): An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Zootaxa 4977 (1): 1-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1
Type material. Neotype (ZMH-A 0000672). ITALY: Sicily, Palermo [ca. 38 ° 06 ’ N, 13 ° 21 ’ E]. Preservation. 1 jar: Label 1. Plutonium zwierleini Cavanna, G. H. Martens d. 16. V. 1898, Palermo Sizilien; Label 2. Plutonium zwierleinii Cavanna (imprint: Zool. Museum Hamburg). Label 3; Scolopendromorpha: Cryptodiae: Plutoniuminae Plutonium zwierleini Cavanna NEOTYPE Sig. Shelley, 1996 (typewriting). Old type catalogue. Not listed. Type status. Shelley (1997: 103) designated the neotype. The ZMH file card reads: “ Verliehen [loan] 1971 an [to] R. E. Crabill, 1989 an [to] R. M., Label: Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae: Plutoniuminae Plutonium zwierleini Cavanna NEOTYPE Sig. Shelley, 1996. ” Collection remarks. This type was donated by the German ornithologist Gustav Heinrich Martens (1842 – 1912). Current systematic position. Plutonium zwierleini Cavanna, 1881.
Thofern, Detlef, Dupérré, Nadine, Harms, Danilo (2021): An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Zootaxa 4977 (1): 1-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1

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An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Thofern, Detlef, Dupérré, Nadine, Harms, Danilo (2021): An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Zootaxa 4977 (1): 1-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1

Abstract

Centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) are carnivorous arthropods that live in leaf litter and soil habitats on all continents except Antarctica. Roughly 3,300 species have been described to date but the taxonomy is still progressing and requires a thorough documentation of type material and type deposits. In this paper we provide an annotated catalogue of the centipede type collection at the Zoological Museum (ZMH) in Hamburg. This collection comprises 490 type specimens belonging to 141 taxa originally described as species, subspecies and varieties. More than half of these taxa were described by the pioneering myriapodologists Carl Graf Attems (Vienna) and Karl Kraepelin (Hamburg). The collection includes material representing 93 valid species or subspecies and contains specimens predominantly from Australia (33%), Asia (22%), Africa (20%) and South America (20%). Taxonomically, the focus is on the centipede orders Scolopendromorpha (56 valid species) and Geophilomorpha (28 valid species) with fewer types for the Lithobiomorpha (8 species). A total of 48 taxa (34% of type species) have been synonymized since they were originally described and the type material for 12 additional species at the ZMH is lost. We provide a brief historical overview of this collection from its origin at the Museum Godeffroy and the Johanneum in Hamburg, including the most relevant taxonomists and collectors, followed by an annotated taxonomic catalogue with details on all species that are or were represented by type material.

Thofern D, Dupérré N, Harms D, plazi (2021). An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-14.

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GBIF Usage Key
183227500
Dataset Key
b2e605e3-bf11-45a8-a175-ce716bccb00b
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Backbone Key
2231548
Taxon ID
ED42878659799858D18D8BB676E29D15.taxon
Last Crawled
6/10/2026
Last Interpreted
6/10/2026
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