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Barrow Island Subterranean Milliped Speleostrophus nesiotes Hoffman, 1994

Fauna Portal species: 11354



Diagnosis

Speleostrophus nesiotes is the only blind trigoniulid milliped in Australia.

Australia

  • Western Australia

Publications

Car CA, Short M, Huynh C & Harvey MS (2013): The millipedes of Barrow Island, Western Australia (Diplopoda). Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement. 83: 209 - 2019

Hoffman RL (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


Volker Framenau, 18 December 2021