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.

Cryptops niuensis Chamberlin, 1920

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1920). The Myriopoda of the Australian region - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 64: 1-269, see p. 5.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Cryptopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Cryptops Leach, 1815

Type locality: Cook Islands, Niue Island

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Attems C. (1930). Myriopoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin, 54: 1-308, see p. 218.

Distribution:

-- within Pacific: Cook Is.; Fiji

Notes: Specimens from Vietnam identified as C. niuensis by Schileyko (1998, 2001) are C. doriae (Schileyko, 2007 - Arthropoda Selecta 16: 90).