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.

Acanthogeophilus spiniger (Meinert,1870)

Original description: Meinert F. (1870). Myriapoda Musaei Hauniensis. Bitrag til Myriapodernes morphologi og systematik. I. Geophile - Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, (3)7: 1-128, see p. 85.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Geophilus Leach, 1814

Type locality: Bona

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Attems C. (1929). Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin, 52: 1-388, see p. 326.

Distribution:

-- within Africa: Algeria

Notes: Firstly assigned to the genus Acanthogeophilus Minelli, 1982 by Foddai & Minelli (1999 - Journal of Natural History, 33: 281).