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.

Plateurytion elongatus (Verhoeff,1937)

Original description: Verhoeff K.W. (1937). South African Geophilomorpha (Myriopoda) - Annals of the South African Museum , 32: 95-116, see p. 107.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: subspecies

Original genus: Eurytion Attems, 1903

Type locality: Kakamas (Orange River); Garies (Namaqualand)

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Bonato L., Pereira L.A., Minelli A. (2007). Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the centipede genera Chomatobius, Ityphilus, Hapleurytion, Plateurytion, and Steneurytion (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) - Zootaxa, 1485: 1-12, see p. 6.

Notes: Originally described as Eurytion kalaharinus elongatus.