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 tahitianus 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. 8.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Cryptopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Cryptops Leach, 1815

Type locality: Tahiti

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Schileyko A.A. (2007). The scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda) of Vietnam, with contributions to the faunas of Cambodia and Laos. Part 3 - Arthropoda Selecta, 16: 71-95, see p. 90.

Notes: Attems' (1938, 1953) records (as C. tahitiana) from Vietnam need confirmation.