Scolopendra alternans Leach, 1813
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Leach W.E. Crustaceology, in D. Brewster (ed.) The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Blackwood, Edinburgh. 7(2): 383-437. (1814).
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Chilopoda
- order
- Scolopendromorpha
- family
- Scolopendridae
- genus
- Scolopendra
- species
- Scolopendra alternans
Name
- Synonyms
- Scolopendra complanata Newport, 1844
- Scolopendra cubensis Saussure, 1860
- Scolopendra grayi Newport, 1844
- Scolopendra hirsutipes Bollman, 1893
- Scolopendra iaequalis Leach, 1814
- Scolopendra iaequalis Mercurio, 2016
- Scolopendra inaequalis Leach, 1814
- Scolopendra incerta Newport, 1845
- Scolopendra inequalis Leach, 1814
- Scolopendra longipes Wood, 1862
- Scolopendra multispinata Newport, 1844
- Scolopendra sagraea Gervais, 1837
- Scolopendra testacea Wood, 1861
- Scolopendra torquata Wood, 1861
- Homonyms
- Scolopendra alternans Leach, 1813
- Common names
- Caribbean Giant Centipede in English
- Ciempiés Gigante Caribeño in Spanish
- Florida Keys Centipede in English
- Haitian Giant Centipede in English
- bète à mille pieds de St. Domingue in French
- bète à mille pieds de St. Domingue in French
Bibliographic References
- Armas, Luis F. de (31/12/2021) Predation of the centipede <i>Rhysida longipes</i> (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae) by the Tropical Home Gecko, <i>Hemidactylus mabouia</i> (Squamata: Gekkonidae)
- Arthaud, Charles (06/1787) Description de la Bête à mille pieds de St. Domingue.
- Chamberlin, Ralph V (18/01/1958) Some records of chilopods from Florida
- Crabill, Ralph Edwin (08/04/1960) Centipedes of the Smithsonian-Bredin expeditions to the West Indies
- Evenhuis, Neal L (16/12/2003) Publication and dating of the journals forming the <i>Annals and Magazine of Natural History</i> and the <i>Journal of Natural History</i>
- Gillingham, James C,Carpenter, Charles C (05/1984) Giant centipede (<i>Scolopendra alternans</i>) attacks marine toad (<i>Bufo marinus</i>)
- Iorio, Étienne,Coulis, Mathieu (01/2020) Étude des myriapodes de Martinique, avec un pré-atlas partiel et une évaluation préliminaire de leurs enjeux «patrimoniaux»
- Kevan, D Keith McE.: A preliminary survey of known and potentially Canadian and Alaskan centipedes (Chilopoda)
- Kraepelin, K.: Catalogue des scolopendrides des collections du Muséum d‘Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Deuxième partie. Genre <i>Scolopendra</i>
- Leach, William Elford (1816) Annulosa
- Leach, William Elford (1817) The Characters of the Genera of the Class Myriapoda, with Descriptions of some Species
- Lewis, John G. E.: The scolopendrid centipedes in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae)
- Martínez-Muñoz, Carlos A., and Daniel Perez-Gelabert, 2018: Checklist of the centipedes (Chilopoda) of Hispaniola. Novitates Caribaea, no. 12. 74-101.
- Palisot de Beauvois, Ambroise-Marie-François-Joseph (1817) Insectes recueillis en Afrique et en Amérique, dans les royaumes d'Oware et de Benin, á Saint-Domingue et dans les États-Unis, pendant les années 1786-1797
- Perez-Gelabert, Daniel E. (30/07/2008) Arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti): A checklist and bibliography
- Pierre-André Latreille (1819) Scolopendre, <i>Scolopendra</i>
- Teruel, Rolando,Morell Savall, Ernesto,Tomás M. Rodríguez-Cabrera (01/12/2021) Amphibians and reptiles as prey of <i>Heteroctenus junceus</i> (Scorpiones: Buthidae), with a summary of vertebrate predation by scorpions in the West Indies
- Underwood, Lucien M. (07/1887) The Scolopendridӕ of the United States
- Wolfgang Bücherl (1939) Os quilópodos do Brasil