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.

Taiwanella Takakuwa, 1936

Original description: Takakuwa Y. (1936). Über eine neue Gattung und 2 neue Arten von Mecistocephalidae aus Formosa - Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 26: 435-439, see p. 435.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Mecistocephalidae

Original rank: subgenus

Type species:

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Bonato L., Foddai D., Minelli A. (2002). A new mecistocephalid centipede from Ryukyu Islands and a revisitation of "Taiwanella" (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Mecistocephalidae) - Zootaxa, 86: 1-12, see p. 3.

Notes: The name is unavailable (Bonato, Foddai & Minelli, 2002 - Zootaxa, 86: 3). It has been used even though it was a nomen nudum.