Barrow Island Subterranean Milliped Speleostrophus nesiotes Hoffman, 1994
Fauna Portal species: 11354
Speleostrophus nesiotes male, lateral (WAM T76951)
Image: Car et al. (2013; fig. 4)
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Speleostrophus nesiotes is the only blind trigoniulid milliped in Australia.
Australia
- Western Australia
Publications
(2013): The millipedes of Barrow Island, Western Australia (Diplopoda). Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement. 83: 209 - 2019
(1994): Studies on spiroboloid millipedes. XVIII. Speleostrophus nesiotes, the first known troglobitic spiroboloid milliped, from Barrow Island, Western Australia (Diplopoda: Pachybolidae: Trigoniulinae). Myriapodologica. 3: 19 - 24