Australobius tenuiunguis

Australobius tenuiunguis is a species of centipede in the Lithobiidae family. It was described in 1980 by British myriapodologist Edward Holt Eason.[1][2]

Australobius tenuiunguis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Lithobiomorpha
Family: Lithobiidae
Genus: Australobius
Species:
A. tenuiunguis
Binomial name
Australobius tenuiunguis
(Eason, 1980)[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithobius tenuiunguis Leach, 1814

Distribution

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The species occurs in New Guinea. The type locality is the Finim Tel Plateau, 35 km WSW of Telefomin, in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Eason, EH (1980). "Zoological results of the British Speleological Expedition to Papua New Guinea 1975. A new species of the subgenus Austalobius, genus Lithobius (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from Papua New Guinea". Myriapodologica. 1: 42–46 [42].
  2. ^ a b 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 17 April 2023.