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Centipedes and Millipeds (Arthropoda: Diplopoda, Chilopoda) from Saba Island, Lesser Antilles, and a Consolidation of Major References on the Myriapod Fauna of “Lesser” Caribbean Islands
(2012)
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Rowland M. Shelley
Derek S. Sikes
- The chilopod, Cryptops hortensis (Donovan, 1810) (Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae), and the diplopods,
Pseudospirobolellus avernus (Butler, 1876) (Spirobolida: Pseudospirobolellidae) and Oxidus gracilis (C. L. Koch,
1847) (Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae), are newly recorded from Saba Island, Lesser Antilles, which also harbors
one additional scolopendromorph and four more chilognath millipeds. Except for the plausibly native scolopendrid
centipede, Scolopendra alternans Leach, 1813, all are human introductions. Concentrated sampling is needed in
the cloud/elfin forest atop Mt. Scenery, where indigenous millipeds may reside, and with extraction techniques
throughout the island, to potentially document the diplopod subclass Penicillata. Nine small Caribbean islands
in addition to Saba have been incorrectly reported as lacking diplopod records because publications citing them
were overlooked by past authors. Works documenting myriapods from small Caribbean islands are consolidated.
