Australobius scabrior

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Australobius scabrior
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Lithobiomorpha
Family: Lithobiidae
Genus: Australobius
Species:
A. scabrior
Binomial name
Australobius scabrior
Chamberlin, 1920 [1]

Australobius scabrior is a species of centipede in the Lithobiidae family. It was first described in 1920 by American biologist Ralph Vary Chamberlin. [1] [2]

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Distribution

The species occurs in the eastern states of mainland Australia: Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. [3] The type locality is Kuranda, on the Atherton Tableland of north-eastern Queensland. [2]

Behaviour

The centipedes are solitary terrestrial predators that inhabit plant litter and soil. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Chamberlin, RVI (1920). "The Myriopoda of the Australian region". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College. 64: 1–269 [76].
  2. 1 2 Bonato L.; Chagas Junior A.; Edgecombe G.D.; Lewis J.G.E.; Minelli A.; Pereira L.A.; Shelley R.M.; Stoev P.; Zapparoli M. (2016). "ChiloBase 2.0". A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese, University of Padua. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Species Australobius scabrior Chamberlin, 1920". Australian Faunal Directory. Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia. 2010. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
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