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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).
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The valid name for Cryptops savignyi Leach, 1817 is Cryptops anomalans (Newport, 1844)

Cryptops savignyi Leach, 1817

Original description: Leach W.E. (1817). The zoological miscellany, being the descriptions of new ar interesting animals. III. XII. The caracters of the genera of the class Myriopoda. - Taylor, London, 3: 31-45, 10 pl., see p. 42.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Cryptopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Cryptops Leach, 1815

Type locality: "Musei Britannici horto" = garden of the British Museum, London (United Kingdom)

Synonymy: Crabill R.E. jr. (1962). Concerning chilopod types in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Scolopendromorpha - Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 13(5): 505-510, see p. 506.

Notes: Meinert (1886) regarded C. savignyi as a synonym of C. hortensis but Crabill (1963) wrote of the holotype of C. savignyi: "The specimen is unquestionably referable to Newport’s anomalans of 1844". He considered it a nomen oblitum. Leach (1817) and Newport (1844) used the spelling Savignii but the spelling savignyi is in prevailing usage.