MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Strigamia maritima (Leach, 1817)

ERMS taxon details

Strigamia maritima (Leach, 1817)

Strigamia maritima, River Lynher, Cornwall, UK

AphiaID

105492 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105492)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Strigamia Gray, 1843

Original name

Geophilus maritimus Leach, 1817

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Original description

(of ) Leach, W. E. (1817). The characters of the Genera of the Class Myriapoda, with Descriptions of some Species. Zoological Miscellany. 3(12): 31-45., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28686860
page(s): 44 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Barber, A. D. (2025). World Database of littoral Myriapoda. Strigamia maritima (Leach, 1817). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://marbef.org//marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105492 on 2026-08-06

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Strigamia maritima (Leach, 1817). Accessed at: http://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105492 on 2026-08-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Minelli, Alessandro

2009-05-05 16:59:57Z

changed

Barber, A.D.

2010-07-14 08:54:47Z

changed

Barber, A.D.

Licensing

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original description (of ) Leach, W. E. (1817). The characters of the Genera of the Class Myriapoda, with Descriptions of some Species. Zoological Miscellany. 3(12): 31-45., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28686860
page(s): 44 [details]

basis of record Barber, A. D. (2009). Littoral myriapods. a review. Soil Organisms. 81(3): 735-760., available online at https://www.senckenberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/33_barber.pdf [details] Available for editors

additional source Barber, A.D. (2009a) Centipedes. Linnean Society Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) 58. Field Studies Council, Shrewsbury. [details]

additional source Roth, V.D. & Brown, W.L. (1976) Other air-breathing arthropods in Cheng, L. Marine Insects. North-Holland Publishing, Amsterdam-Oxford, American Elsevier, New York. [details]

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in RoR), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors

additional source van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]

additional source Minelli, A. (2001). Chilopoda and Diplopoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 323 (look up in RoR) [details]

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]