ChiloBase 2.0

Recommended citation:
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).
Available at https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it.

Gonibius Chamberlin, 1925

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1925). The genera Lithobius, Neolithobius, Gonibius and Zinapolys in America north of Mexico - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 57: 441-504, see p. 445.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: genus

Type species: Lithobius rex Bollman, 1888 - by original designation

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Attems C. (1926). Chilopoda. In: Kükenthal W. & Krumbach Th. (eds.), Handbuch der Zoologie - De Gruyter, Berlin und Leipzig , 4(1): 239-402, see p. 382, 384.

Valid Species:

• Gonibius glyptocephalus (Chamberlin, 1903)
• Gonibius rex (Bollman, 1888)

Notes: syn. of Lithobius (Australobius) Chamberlin, 1920 according to Attems (1938 - Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle, n.s., 6: 344) but unconvincing synonymy according to Eason (1992 - Ber. nat. -med. Verein Innsbruck, suppl. 10: 3)