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Cryptocorypha ornata

Ornate Millipede

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Ornate Millipede

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE circumtropical, including St Helena, Hong Hong, Cooks, Tahiti, Marquesas, Hawai‘i

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Naturalised; Land-Freshwater, wetlands

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Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Cryptocorypha ornata (Attems 1938)
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ATELOCERATA; DIPLOPODA; Chilognatha; Polydesmida; PYRGODESMIDAE

More Information

GENERAL NOTE: Based on similarities of structure and distribution to the related Aporodesminus wallacei it has been suggested that Cryptocorypha ornata is semiaquatic being able to live under water as adults and subadults, and that their dispersal is as likely due to zoochory as to hydrochory or anthropochorism. [Adis, Golovatch, et.al. 1988]

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Cooks: Adis, J.; Golovatch, S. I.; Hoffman, R. L.; Hales, D. F.; Burrows, F. J. (1988) Morphological adaptations of the semiaquatic millipede Aporodesminus wallacei Silvestri 1904 with notes on the taxonomy, distribution, habitats and ecology of this and a related species [Cryptocorphya ornata] (Pyrgodesmidae Polydesmida Diplopoda). Tropical Zoology 11(2):371-387.

References:
Special Reference: Adis, J.; Golovatch, S. I.; Hoffman, R. L.; Hales, D. F.; Burrows, F. J. (1988) Morphological adaptations of the semiaquatic millipede Aporodesminus wallacei Silvestri 1904 with notes on the taxonomy, distribution, habitats and ecology of this and a related species (Pyrgodesmidae Polydesmida Diplopoda). Tropical Zoology 11(2):371-387.

Data Update History (information):
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Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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